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Browsing Humanities by Subject "Social constructionism"
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-04-05)Adolescents need to feel loved and cared for and they need to share their feelings with other people in their environment. As the school plays a significant role in the life of the adolescent, emotional support is an ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2008-12-01)The focus of this dissertation is to explore contextually relevant ideas through conversation around behaviour problems, specifically bullying, experienced in primary schools situated in the township of Mamelodi. The study ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2010-06-02)This study focuses on exploring the relationship between domestic workers and the children they help to raise from the child’s perspective, using attachment theory (Bowlby, 1988) and psychoanalytic theory (referring ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2004)This qualitative study explores the relationship between a childless married couple and their dog by looking at this phenomenon through a social constructionistic viewpoint. Human animal interaction has been studied in ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013)The research study, Caught between Christianity and the hard rock: A narrative study, presents, explores and discusses the stories of Christian hard rock musicians from a predetermined Christian hard rock band, comprising ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-06-21)The ever-changing demands of working life pose considerable challenges to higher education. The literature indicates that traditional forms of university instruction positioned a deficit model of teaching and learning, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2006-09-12)The co-construction of helping services in the community of Ennerdale is a study that explores men’s reluctance to make use of helping and psychological services. Academic and informal literature informs us that men are ...
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Constructing gender : postgraduate psychology students’ gendered accounts of their future profession (University of Pretoria, 2012)In this qualitative study I explored how postgraduate psychology students treat gender in their accounts of their future profession, using a social constructionist framework. I considered how this group of future psychologists ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)This qualitative study aimed to explore the constructions of childhood depression as portrayed in South African women's interest magazines. Departing from a postmodern paradigm and utilising a social constructionist ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2006-02-10)This research is concerned with the construction of identity with regards to female children of alcoholics studying at Rand Afrikaans University (RAU). Available literature on this topic suggests that the context of parental ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2008-10-16)This thesis focuses on how masculinity and femininity are constructed in alcohol advertisements in the print form, specifically in For Him Magazine (FHM) and Gentlemen’s Quarterly (GQ) . Alcohol advertisements address the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013)This qualitative study, located within a postmodern and social constructionist framework, explores how the social identities of retired white Afrikaner ex-military South African Defence Force (SADF) servicemen are constructed ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2008-12-19)The aim of this study is to explore some of the ways in which masculinity is constructed in relation to HIV/AIDS. A review of literature about masculinity describes a normative masculinity where being a man is often ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-05-16)Due to the changing demographics of South African organisations after the 1994 elections and the subsequent sub-cultural diversification, the working environment is becoming the primary place where the different South ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012)Literature on marriage shows that in the span of a single generation it has become the norm for both spouses to work outside the home. The inception of dual career marriages in the 1970s has created challenges and complications ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2008-07-14)This study explores the experiences of infertile married African women in South Africa. The study explores the women’s emotional experiences, their experiences of their relationships and the possible ways in which their ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2010)The research endeavoured to voice the told and untold stories of adolescents living with HIV undergoing continual disease management at the Kalafong Hospital Paediatric HIV Clinic. Through the telling of their stories the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022-10)Depression is known to be one of the most common mental health disorders, which, if severe, may predispose sufferers to suicidal ideations as well as suicidal attempts. There are approximately 804 000 completed suicides ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2006-01-25)Historically there has been many changes to the construction of fatherhood. These changes have not been linear and most significant changes took place during the twentieth century. Four ways of being and acting as a father ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2008-12-15)As the Internet and online shopping is growing at a very fast pace worldwide, investigating this phenomenon within a South African context is crucial considering that it is a relatively new trend in this country. Typical ...
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