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Professional And Personal Social Networking And Enhancement Of Social Capital In Young Adults, Maria Malu H. Roldan, Janejira Sutanonpaiboon, Richard Burkhard Jan 2017

Professional And Personal Social Networking And Enhancement Of Social Capital In Young Adults, Maria Malu H. Roldan, Janejira Sutanonpaiboon, Richard Burkhard

Journal of International Technology and Information Management

PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONAL SOCIAL NETWORKING AND ENHANCEMENT OF SOCIAL CAPITAL IN YOUNG ADULTS

ABSTRACT

This study compares the use of personal and professional social networking sites by young adults for social capital enhancing activities. The research is based on a survey of college-age adults (n=292) who were asked about their use of two social networking sites of contrasting architectures: the more interactive, social/personal\-oriented site Facebook, and the relatively less interactive, professional/business-oriented site LinkedIn. Data were analyzed to determine the relationships among demographic and technology experience factors, and respondents’ use of these sites for social capital enhancing activities. Findings suggest that …


Barbie Doesn't Have Bruises: Gendered Images Of Anxiety And Avoidant Attachment Relationships In Film, Claudia G. Chiang-Lopez Jan 2017

Barbie Doesn't Have Bruises: Gendered Images Of Anxiety And Avoidant Attachment Relationships In Film, Claudia G. Chiang-Lopez

Calvert Undergraduate Research Awards

Viewers’ interpretations of romantic relationships portrayed between those with anxious and avoidant attachments can affect their opinions on what constitutes appropriate relationship behavior. I conducted a literature review on media impacts and offer an interpretation of the implications of the language used to describe characters, relationships and characters’ ends. The films studied - Sunset Boulevard, Sid and Nancy, and The Hustler - showed a pattern where in a relationship between an anxious and an avoidant character, the anxious character was punished, absorbed by their relationship, abandoned, trapped in their life, and cut off from the world. Viewers watch films to …


Thai Massage And Commercial Sex Work: A Phenomenological Study, Elizabeth Monk-Turner, Charlie G. Turner Jan 2017

Thai Massage And Commercial Sex Work: A Phenomenological Study, Elizabeth Monk-Turner, Charlie G. Turner

Sociology & Criminal Justice Faculty Publications

Many researchers have suggested that commercial sex work in Thailand has gone into massage establishments. This paper explores how the experience of receiving massage in Thailand differs by four types of establishment (street front, massage schools, spas, and high-end resorts) and whether or not unsolicited sexual services are offered. The current study aims to expand our understanding of both massage and prostitution in Thailand and the relationship between these activities. In order to explore this research question, we utilize a phenomenological approach and aim to relate the essence of the massage experience and whether or not unsolicited sexual services were …


ปัจจัยที่ส่งผลต่อการตัดสินใจในการเลือกเรียนโขนนอกวิทยาลัยนาฏศิลป์ ในเขตกรุงเทพมหานคร, กันต์ จามรมาน Jan 2017

ปัจจัยที่ส่งผลต่อการตัดสินใจในการเลือกเรียนโขนนอกวิทยาลัยนาฏศิลป์ ในเขตกรุงเทพมหานคร, กันต์ จามรมาน

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การวิจัยครั้งนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อศึกษาปัจจัยในการเลือกเรียนโขนนอกวิทยาลัยนาฏศิลป์ในเขตกรุงเทพมหานคร โดยมีกลุ่มเป้าหมายเป็นนักเรียนที่เลือกเรียนโขนและศิลปะแขนงอื่น ๆ จำนวน 331 คน จากการสุ่มเลือกแบบเจาะจงกลุ่มจากโรงเรียนทั้งหมด 10 โรงเรียน โดยใช้รูปแบบการวิจัยเชิงสำรวจ มีแบบสอบถามและการสัมภาษณ์เป็นเครื่องมือในการเก็บรวบรวมข้อมูลจากกลุ่มตัวอย่าง ผ่านการวิเคราะห์ระดับปัจจัยที่ส่งผลต่อการตัดสินใจในการเลือกเรียนโขน ผลการวิจัยพบว่า 1) ปัจจัยที่ส่งผลต่อการตัดสินใจในการเลือกเรียนโขนนอกวิทยาลัยนาฏศิลป์ ในเขตกรุงเทพมหานคร ประกอบด้วยกลุ่มปัจจัย 7 กลุ่ม ได้แก่ (1) ประโยชน์ของนาฏศิลป์โขนที่มีต่อตนเอง (2) ความสามารถทางโขน (3) ความคุ้นเคยเกี่ยวกับโขน (4) ความสอดคล้องเหมาะสมต่อตนเอง (5) สิ่งตอบแทนจากภายนอก (6) ทัศนคติของคนรอบข้าง (7) อาจารย์ผู้สอนและสถาบัน 2) ปัจจัยภายนอก 3 ตัว คือ สิ่งตอบแทนภายนอก ทัศนคติของคนรอบข้าง และอาจารย์ผู้สอนและสถาบัน ได้ส่งอิทธิพลไปยังปัจจัยภายใน ได้แก่ ความคุ้นเคยเกี่ยวกับโขน ความสามารถทางโขน ความสอดคล้องเหมาะสมต่อตนเองและประโยชน์ของนาฏศิลป์โขนที่มีต่อตนเอง 3) ปัญหาและอุปสรรคในการเรียนโขนสำหรับผู้เรียนนอกวิทยาลัยนาฏศิลป์ ในเขตกรุงเทพมหานคร พบว่า (1) อาจารย์ผู้สอนและสถาบันเน้นที่การแสดงเป็นหลัก (2) โรงเรียนหรือสถาบันไม่มีอาจารย์ผู้สอนที่เป็นผู้เชี่ยวชาญด้านโขนโดยตรงหรือมีอาจารย์ผู้สอนไม่เพียงพอ (3) ขาดความต่อเนื่องสม่ำเสมอในการพัฒนาทักษะการแสดงโขน (4) โอกาสในการแสดงความสามารถมีน้อย (5) สถาบันขาดการยอมรับจากสังคมว่าเป็นสถาบันที่ดีมีคุณภาพ


Conflicted Commons: A Local Makerspace In The Neoliberal City, Caitlin Cunningham Jan 2017

Conflicted Commons: A Local Makerspace In The Neoliberal City, Caitlin Cunningham

Theses and Dissertations

The commodification of culture, space, and resources is incentivized by neoliberal urbanism. In response, we have seen an attempt to develop collectively organized, oppositional spaces within urban places. The tensions that arise when considering the production of commons in the development of the neoliberal city are the central focus of this paper. As I will observe, these spaces are subjected to commodification as they become increasingly de-politicized through neoliberal ideologies. In order to theorize about these contradictory elements, I observe a makerspace in Richmond, Virginia called HackRVA. Specifically, I consider HackRVA as an urban commons. Through in-depth interviews and participant …


Back To Africa In The 21st Century: The Cultural Reconnection Experiences Of African American Women, Marcia Tate Arunga Jan 2017

Back To Africa In The 21st Century: The Cultural Reconnection Experiences Of African American Women, Marcia Tate Arunga

Antioch University Dissertations & Theses

The purpose of this study is to examine the lived experiences of 18 African American women who went to Kenya, East Africa as part of a Cultural Reconnection delegation. A qualitative narrative inquiry method was used for data collection. This was an optimal approach to honoring the authentic voices of African American women. Eighteen African American women shared their stories, revelations, feelings and thoughts on reconnecting in their ancestral homeland of Africa. The literature discussed includes diasporic returns as a subject of study, barriers to the return including the causes of historic trauma, and how Black women as culture bearers …


Avoidance In Negative Ties: Inhibiting Closure, Reciprocity, And Homophily, Nicholas Harrigan, Janice Yap Jan 2017

Avoidance In Negative Ties: Inhibiting Closure, Reciprocity, And Homophily, Nicholas Harrigan, Janice Yap

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Theorising of negative ties has focused on simplex negative tie networks or multiplex signed tie networks. We examine the fundamental differences between positive and negative tie networks measured on the same set of actors. We test six mechanisms of tie formation on face-to-face positive (affect/esteem) and negative (dislike/disesteem) networks of 282 university students. While popularity, activity, and entrainment are present in both networks, closure, reciprocity, and homophily are largely absent from negative tie networks. We argue this arises because avoidance is inherent to negative sentiments. Avoidance reduces information transfer through negative ties and short-circuits cumulative causation. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. …


Chinese International Students In A Northwest University: Investigating Cultural Academic Learning And Teaching Preferences, Michael L. Bevis Jan 2017

Chinese International Students In A Northwest University: Investigating Cultural Academic Learning And Teaching Preferences, Michael L. Bevis

Theses and Dissertations

As Chinese international students on American university campuses continue to rise, the importance of these institutions to accommodate the students in adapting to a different academic culture has become more critical. On a public, coeducational research university located in the Pacific Northwest, a concurrent triangulated mixed method research design was implemented to investigate cultural factors with preferred learning and teaching styles of Chinese international students along with what corroborative descriptions these students provide as effective learning experiences in American college classrooms.

The study brought attention to Chinese international students’ differing cultural values from the previous literature understanding, it supported previous …


Listening To The Mattole: Lessons In Bioregionalism, Cannabis, And Capitalism From A Northern California Community, Nicola R. Walters Jan 2017

Listening To The Mattole: Lessons In Bioregionalism, Cannabis, And Capitalism From A Northern California Community, Nicola R. Walters

Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects

In the United States, from the 1960s through the 1970s, nearly a million Americans left urban areas to establish themselves in rural environments; this exodus is now known as the back-to-the-land movement. Nestled in the mountains of Northern California, along a capricious river, and surrounded by natural beauty, the Mattole Valley became home to many of these back-to-the-land immigrants. Seasoned in the social and cultural movements of Berkeley and San Francisco during the 1960s, the “new settlers” transformed the social and environmental landscape of southern Humboldt County as they integrated into rural communities. The Mattole Valley offers a unique look …


A "Dying Breed"? Exploring Logger Identity After The Decline In The Timber Industry In Hayfork, Ca, Sheri L. Harrison Jan 2017

A "Dying Breed"? Exploring Logger Identity After The Decline In The Timber Industry In Hayfork, Ca, Sheri L. Harrison

Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects

The rapid decline of timber operations in the late twentieth century had an immense impact on rural communities whose economy was dependent on logging and lumber mills. The voices and concerns of timber-dependent communities and timber workers have been marginalized by broader forces that focused on political, economic, and environmental issues throughout the Pacific Northwest timber conflict and the subsequent deindustrialization of the timber industry. This study examines the social impacts on loggers, their families, and the broader community in Hayfork, California, through the framework of identity theory. The formation of logger identity and the broader processes that have impacted …