Sentences with phrase «investigate social constructs»

She started out working in dance and molecular biology and now creates participatory installations and events that investigate social constructs and corporeal experience.

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His work, which includes sculpture, installation, performance, and photography, investigates the mediation of constructed identity in social arenas and subsequent dislocation.
The exhibition series The Neighbors investigates artistic concerns and visual languages dealing with identity, an issue tackled less as a personal exploration of ethnicity alone than as an examination of the ways in which social classes are constructed and their divisions purportedly manifested.
Stemming from her South American heritage and migration to Europe, Calero constructs social spaces that use sensory engagement as a democratic entry point for audiences to investigate socio - political themes of cultural representation and national identity.
By appropriating technologies of representation from the sciences, architecture, and the commercial arts and combining the dimensional properties of video, photography, sculpture, and drawing, Sarah Dornner investigates the ways in which cultural and social constructs inform individual perceptions of space.
Some recent examples include using Facebook to predict riots, comparing the use of Facebook with body image concern in adolescent girls and investigating whether Facebook can lower levels of stress responses, with research suggesting that it may enhance and undermine psycho - social constructs related to well - being.
Construct validity was investigated by comparing the five factors adopted as a result of the exploratory factor analysis with the elements of social cognitive theory used in the hypothetical framework, that is, environment and individual factors.
Therefore, investigating the link between support - seeking and relationship closeness in the context of social networks should be an important step towards understanding these constructs as relationship - general versus relationship — specific components.
The objectives of the present study were (a) to investigate whether clique isolation from age 11 to 13 years is a social risk factor for subsequent depressive symptoms in early adolescence; (b) to test the potential role of loneliness and perceived social acceptance as cognitive and emotional constructs underlying the link between clique isolation and depressive symptoms; and (c) to explore possible sex differences in the association between clique isolation and depressive symptoms.
Given this broad array of evidence for its construct validity, future researchers can employ this validated scale to investigate various forms of social exchange in Chinese work settings.
The purpose of this research was to examine the validity of an adult attachment style questionnaire, to understand the relationships between the type of attachment style in relation to self - perceived stress and social support, and to investigate the influence of gender, ethnicity and religion on the above constructs.
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