The current dissertation contains three series of studies that revealed laypeople's nuanced, meticulous, and early-emerging attentiveness to gender membership, gender self-identification, and gender roles and norms in their personal and social life. Specifically, the studies tog…
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This thesis is an exploratory study of moves and movements of the design discipline towards social and activist critical practices. It departs from a growing concern for design as a socially committed activity that has been around since the 1960s. The social turn, as we describe…
Using the Ancient Petitions (SC8) a collection of documents housed in the UK National Archives (TNA) as the case study, this dissertation proposes an open-access Resource Description Framework (RDF) structured by integrating a hybrid of traditional analytic descriptions from cod…
This production dissertation explores the friendship dynamics between women as they contend with the stresses of changing life circumstances. Research indicates that friendship is a powerful factor in resilience to stress for both women and men. However, recent socio-biological …
Individualist cultures emphasize independence, self-reliance, self-expressiveness, and emotional detachment in most of their relationships, whereas collectivist cultures emphasize interdependence, cooperation, maintaining harmony, and strong emotional attachment. Based on these …
This study focuses on the way'men from Kabul, Afghanistan form trusting friendships. Based on participant observation, group and personal interviews, and a questionnaire, the researcher develops a descriptive theory of Kabuli Afghan friendships. Examined from an anthropological …
For every famous author of the twelfth-century renaissance, there are numerous lesser-known writers. Despite being overshadowed by more brilliant scholars or those closer to the centre of important events, their voices add depth to the study of the intellectual history of this p…
This study researched the nature of self-identified unlikely ally friendships. An unlikely ally is a person who, despite possible opposition from family or societal group, forms a platonic friendship with someone from another race, religion, ethnic, or cultural group within the …
The theme of friendship is a key principle of human relationships. In order to elucidate this theme as it is found in the proverbial teachings of the book of Proverbs, this study will utilize the theme of “friendship”-a personified wisdom-to argue that “friendship” plays an impo…
Günümüzde, doğal polimerler, sentetik petrol bazlı polimerlerin çevre dostu olmayan özellikleri nedeniyle endüstri için trend hammaddeler haline gelmiştir. Doğal, parçalanabilir polimerlerin kullanılması yıllar içinde artmıştır ve bu ihtiyacı karşılamak amacıyla birçok doğal pol…
The current dissertation focuses on weighted networks, or networks where individual relationships are assigned quantitative measures of tie strength. Most social network research treats social ties as binary variables in which relationships are either present or absent. However,…
Loneliness is on the rise. Students in higher education report increased feelings of isolation, anxiety, and depression and the non-stop transactional culture rarely leaves time for quiet self-reflection or the cultivation of deep ties. Drawing connections between this spiritual…
Insights from ancient philosophers, saints, and Sacred Scripture point to the timeless truth of friendship. On the multiple levels of the human person – physical, psychological, social and spiritual – men who have good friendships are healthy and flourishing, while those who suf…
Among the works of theater of the Spanish Golden Age which feature a mujer varonil, Luis Vélez de Guevara's play, La serrana de la Vera (1613), is particularly provocative. The intensity and ambiguity of the dual nature of its female protagonist, Gila, has been the subject of mu…
The project director desired to direct a fellowship team in creating a strategy to develop biblical fellowship at Cornerstone Church. The first chapter outlines the needs and procedures implemented towards this goal.
Is there a relationship between pain and alternative reality of consciousness? The problem is there conflicting approaches to pain and alternative reality of consciousness. Our society's response to pain sometimes includes a description of having a mental disorder. Our society's…
Friendship is a central relationship-style that grounds us. Much of the literature on the effects of technology on our relationships, especially friendship, has taken a skeptical approach. The notion of friendship is historically-situated, thus, it requires attention in each era…
Building from prior relational maintenance scholarship (Stafford and Canary, 1991), this manuscript presents entropy, the natural tendency of the world to move from a state of order to a state of disorder, as a construct that might explain the central function of relational main…