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Understanding Ideal Social Networking Strategies Based On Relational Mobility And Environmental Stability, Angela Vasishta
Understanding Ideal Social Networking Strategies Based On Relational Mobility And Environmental Stability, Angela Vasishta
Undergraduate Honors Theses
The two studies within this paper look to determine the optimal social networking strategy across a combination of the social and ecological variables of Relational Mobility and Environmental Stability. Researchers Oishi and Kesebir (2012) hypothesize that societies characterized by low Relational Mobility and low Environmental Stability would choose to form narrow networks consisting of deep ties while societies characterized by high Relational Mobility and high Environmental Stability would choose to form broad networks consisting of weak ties. The Strength of Weak Ties Hypothesis argues that across all combinations of social and economic variables, social networks with broad, weak ties would …
Coming Of Age In America: Margaret Mead's Reconstruction Of Adolescence For The 1920s, Sarah Elizabeth Stevens
Coming Of Age In America: Margaret Mead's Reconstruction Of Adolescence For The 1920s, Sarah Elizabeth Stevens
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The Acculturation Process For Kaigaishijo: A Qualitative Study Of Four Japanese Students In An American School, Linda F. Harkins
The Acculturation Process For Kaigaishijo: A Qualitative Study Of Four Japanese Students In An American School, Linda F. Harkins
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
The purpose of this study was to sort out and specify the dimensions of acculturation for kaigaishijo, Japanese sojourning students who presented an anomaly in a monocultural setting, based on factors that surfaced through data collected in the interviews and observations as a result of my conceptual framework that focused on the family, educational environment, and maturity. By sorting the data and comparing and contrasting one child's experiences to those of others as individuals and as an aggregate, nine factors appeared to repeatedly impact the process of acculturation. These essential factors that provide insights into acculturation are (1) the mother's …