2024-03-28T22:42:27Zhttp://nur.nu.edu.kz/oai/requestoai:nur.nu.edu.kz:123456789/21742018-08-15T03:50:09Zcom_123456789_500com_123456789_86com_123456789_67col_123456789_1031
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Alpert, Erika
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2014-01-01
I examine data from my fieldwork with Japanese professional matchmakers and their attitude towards new, “less masculine” masculinities. Matchmakers’ ideologies of conversation show that they understand “good partners” as having personality traits that are not particularly ascribed to any gender. Consequently, they allow for flexibility in gendered behavior, as long as their clients can be brought within the heterosexual institution of marriage. As in previous work in the field of language and sexuality, I focus on the way that genders and sexualities are performed through language. However, by focusing on matchmakers, I aim to examine the institutional structures and language ideologies that constrain the process of self-fashioning. Like other recent work on topics such as “personal development”, I treat “self-fashioning” as a multiparty process by addressing the role of the expert in constructing the advice by which clients are supposed to (re)fashion themselves.
Alpert, E. (2014). Stoicism or shyness?: Japanese professional matchmakers and new masculine conversational ideals. Journal of Language and Sexuality, 3(2), 191-218. DOI: 10.1075/jls.3.2.02alp
http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/2174
Japan
language ideologies
masculinity
matchmaking
self-fashioning
Stoicism or shyness?: Japanese professional matchmakers and new masculine conversational ideals
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Doumani Dupuy, Paula N.
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Spengler, Robert N.
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Frachetti, Michael D.
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2017-03-01
Paula N. Doumani Dupuy, Robert N. Spengler, Michael D. Frachetti, Eurasian textiles: Case studies in exchange during the incipient and later Silk Road periods, In Quaternary International, 2017
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Eurasian textiles: Case studies in exchange during the incipient and later Silk Road periods
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Jia, Peter Weiming
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Betts, Alison
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Doumani Dupuy, Paula N.
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Cong, Dexin
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Jia, Xiaobing
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2017-11-08
Abstract This paper reports on the recent discovery in western Xinjiang of three Late Bronze Age walled sites located on high hilltops, with a fourth on a terrace above a river bed. The hilltop sites contain very small clusters of residential structures and overlook one of the richest areas of seasonal pasture in the upper Bortala Valley, in the western Tian Shan. The walls do not fully encircle the residential structures but protect the most vulnerable points of access to the hilltops, and in particular protect against direct access from the pastures. The discovery of these walled sites in the western Tian Shan is surprising and significant in terms of regional patterns of increased social complexity in the Eurasian Late Bronze Age. It is suggested that the walled hilltop sites were lookout posts, with a small garrison of herders prepared to defend the area in the event of attack by rival pastoralist groups, and that in the Late Bronze Age the Upper Bortala Valley was home to a number of pastoralist groups who contested access to the best pastures.
Peter Weiming Jia, Alison Betts, Paula N. Doumani Dupuy, Dexin Cong, Xiaobing Jia, Bronze Age Hill Forts: New evidence for defensive sites in the western Tian Shan, China, In Archaeological Research in Asia, 2017
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352226717300417
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Bronze age
Eurasia
Xinjiang
Walled sites
Social complexity
Bronze Age Hill Forts: New evidence for defensive sites in the western Tian Shan, China
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Tashmanbetova, Zhuldyz
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2018-10-26
Tashmanbetova, Zhuldyz. (2018) Indigenous Christianity of Central Asia: adoption of Nestorianism in the Medieval period (7-14 AD). Nazarbayev University School of Humanities and Social Sciences.
http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/3562
Central Asia
Excavation “house”
Nestorians
Indigenous Christianity of Central Asia: adoption of Nestorianism in the Medieval period (7-14 AD)
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Hermes, Taylor R.
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Frachetti, Michael D.
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Dupuy, Paula Doumani
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Mar'yashev, Alexei
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Nebel, Almut
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Makarewicz, Cheryl A.
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2019-09
Mobile pastoralists are thought to have facilitated the first trans-Eurasian dispersals of domesticated plants during the Early Bronze Age (ca 2500–2300 BC). Problematically, the earliest seeds of wheat, barley and millet in Inner Asia were recovered from human mortuary contexts and do not inform on local cultivation or subsistence use, while contemporaneous evidence for the use and management of domesticated livestock in the region remains ambiguous. We analysed mitochondrial DNA and multi-stable isotopic ratios (δ13C, δ15N and δ18O) of faunal remains from key pastoralist sites in the Dzhungar Mountains of southeastern Kazakhstan. At ca 2700 BC, Near Eastern domesticated sheep and goat were present at the settlement of Dali, which were also winter foddered with the region's earliest cultivated millet spreading from its centre of domestication in northern China. In the following centuries, millet cultivation and caprine management became increasingly intertwined at the nearby site of Begash. Cattle, on the other hand, received low levels of millet fodder at the sites for millennia. By primarily examining livestock dietary intake, this study reveals that the initial transmission of millet across the mountains of Inner Asia coincided with a substantial connection between pastoralism and plant cultivation, suggesting that pastoralist livestock herding was integral for the westward dispersal of millet from farming societies in China.
Hermes, T. R., Frachetti, M. D., Doumani Dupuy, P. N., Mar’yashev, A., Nebel, A., & Makarewicz, C. A. (2019). Early integration of pastoralism and millet cultivation in Bronze Age Eurasia. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 286(1910), 20191273. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.1273
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10.1098/rspb.2019.1273
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broomcorn millet
Panicum miliaceum
foxtail millet
Setaria italica
Early Bronze Age
Kazakhstan
China
pastoralism
millet cultivation
Bronze Age
Early integration of pastoralism and millet cultivation in Bronze Age Eurasia
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Bigozhin, Ulan
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2019-12-05
Bigozhin, U. (2019). Sacred Geographies in the Eurasian Steppe: The Aqkol Shrine as a Symbol of Kazakh Ethnicity and Religiosity. Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics, 13(2), 131-133.
https://doi.org/10.2478/jef-2019-0019
http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/4692
Sacred Geographies in the Eurasian Steppe: The Aqkol Shrine as a Symbol of Kazakh Ethnicity and Religiosity
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Ikhatova, Sabina
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2020-05-19
The study is intended to explore features of good internship experience, what are the expectations of students regarding internships, and does internship satisfaction affect student’s willingness to work in the company in the future. Also, suggestions to CAC (Career Advising Center at Nazarbayev University), students and hiring companies are presented. Results of seven in-depth interviews of Nazarbayev University undergraduate junior and senior students were used in the study. It was revealed, that internship satisfaction reflects student’s willingness to work in the future in the company. Students who were satisfied with their internship experiences noted that their duties, requirements and tasks were well assigned and discussed from the first day; their communication and working style preferences met the company’s; they felt that they were contributing to the department’s work; their mentors were often open to provide assistance, and that they were acquiring something new and interesting. Suggestions of CAC and company staff were the main sources for finding an internship program for students.
Ikhatova, A. (2020). Internship Satisfaction (Master’s thesis, Nazarbayev University, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan). Retrieved from https://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/4749
http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/4749
internship satisfaction, capstone project, internship expectations, internship.
Internship Satisfaction
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Cashion, Tim
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Nguyen, Tu
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Brink, Talya ten
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ten Brink, Talya
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Mook, Anne
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Palacios-Abrantes, Juliano
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Roberts, Sarah M.
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2020-11-10
Marine protected areas (MPAs) are valuable tools for marine conservation that aim to limit human impacts on marine systems and protect valuable species or habitats. However, as species distributions shift due to ocean warming, acidification, and oxygen depletion from climate change, the areas originally designated under MPAs may bear little resemblance to their past state. Different approaches have been suggested for coping with species on the move in conservation. Here, we test the effectiveness of different MPA designs, including dynamic, network, and different directional orientations on protecting shifting species under climate change through ecosystem modeling in a theoretical ecosystem. Our findings suggest that dynamic MPAs may benefit some species (e.g., whiting and anchovy) and fishing fleets, and these benefits can inform the design or adaptation of MPAs worldwide. In addition, we find that it is important to design MPAs with specific goals and to account for the effects of released fishing pressure and species interactions in MPA design.
Cashion, T., Nguyen, T., ten Brink, T., Mook, A., Palacios-Abrantes, J., & Roberts, S. M. (2020). Shifting seas, shifting boundaries: Dynamic marine protected area designs for a changing climate. PLOS ONE, 15(11), e0241771. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241771
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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241771
http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/5273
Biomass
Climate change
Ecosystem modeling
Ecosystems
Fisheries
Ecosystem functioning
Predator-prey dynamics
Marine fish
Research Subject Categories::SOCIAL SCIENCES::Social sciences::Social anthropology/ethnography
SHIFTING SEAS, SHIFTING BOUNDARIES: DYNAMIC MARINE PROTECTED AREA DESIGNS FOR A CHANGING CLIMATE
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Hermes, Taylor R.
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Frachetti, Michael D.
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Voyakin, Dmitriy
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Yerlomaeva, Antonina S.
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Beisenov, Arman Z.
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Doumani Dupuy, Paula N.
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Papin, Dmitry V.
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Matuzeviciute, Giedre Motuzaite
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Bayarsaikhan, Jamsranjav
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Houle, Jean-Luc
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Tishkin, Alexey A.
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Nebel, Almut
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Krause-Kyora, Ben
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Makarewicz, Cheryl A.
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2020-05-21
Goats were initially managed in the Near East approximately 10,000 years ago and spread across Eurasia as economically productive and environmentally resilient herd animals. While the geographic origins of domesticated goats (Capra hircus) in the Near East have been long-established in the zooarchaeological record and, more recently, further revealed in ancient genomes, the precise pathways by which goats spread across Asia during the early Bronze Age (ca. 3000 to 2500 cal BC) and later remain unclear. We analyzed sequences of hypervariable region 1 and cytochrome b gene in the mitochondrial genome (mtDNA) of goats from archaeological sites along two proposed transmission pathways as well as geographically intermediary sites. Unexpectedly high genetic diversity was present in the Inner Asian Mountain Corridor (IAMC), indicated by mtDNA haplotypes representing common A lineages and rarer C and D lineages. High mtDNA diversity was also present in central Kazakhstan, while only mtDNA haplotypes of lineage A were observed from sites in the Northern Eurasian Steppe (NES). These findings suggest that herding communities living in montane ecosystems were drawing from genetically diverse goat populations, likely sourced from communities in the Iranian Plateau, that were sustained by repeated interaction and exchange. Notably, the mitochondrial genetic diversity associated with goats of the IAMC also extended into the semi-arid region of central Kazakhstan, while NES communities had goats reflecting an isolated founder population, possibly sourced via eastern Europe or the Caucasus region.
Hermes, T. R., Frachetti, M. D., Voyakin, D., Yerlomaeva, A. S., Beisenov, A. Z., Doumani Dupuy, P. N., Papin, D. V., Motuzaite Matuzeviciute, G., Bayarsaikhan, J., Houle, J.-L., Tishkin, A. A., Nebel, A., Krause-Kyora, B., & Makarewicz, C. A. (2020). High mitochondrial diversity of domesticated goats persisted among Bronze and Iron Age pastoralists in the Inner Asian Mountain Corridor. PLOS ONE, 15(5), e0233333. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0233333
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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0233333
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0233333
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domesticated goats
Capra hircus
Research Subject Categories::NATURAL SCIENCES
Iron Age
Bronze Age
HIGH MITOCHONDRIAL DIVERSITY OF DOMESTICATED GOATS PERSISTED AMONG BRONZE AND IRON AGE PASTORALISTS IN THE INNER ASIAN MOUNTAIN CORRIDOR
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Medeuov, Darkhan
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Roth, Camille
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Puzyreva, Kseniia
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Basov, Nikita
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2021-09-03
This article proposes an approach to compare semantic networks using conceptcentered sub-networks. A concept-centered sub-network is defned as an induced
network whose vertex set consists of the given concept (ego) and all its adjacent
concepts (alters) and whose link set consists of all the links between the ego and
alters (including alter-alter links). By looking at the vertex and link overlap indices of
concept-centered networks we infer semantic similarity of the underlying concepts.
We cross-evaluate the semantic similarity by close-reading textual contexts from which
networks are derived. We illustrate the approach on written and interview texts from an
ethnographic study of food management practice in England.
Medeuov, D., Roth, C., Puzyreva, K., & Basov, N. (2021). Appraising discrepancies and similarities in semantic networks using concept-centered subnetworks. Applied Network Science, 6(1). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41109-021-00408-0
http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/5971
Type of access: Open Access
Semantic networks
Flood management
Computational text analysis
APPRAISING DISCREPANCIES AND SIMILARITIES IN SEMANTIC NETWORKS USING CONCEPT-CENTERED SUBNETWORKS
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Abaidylda, Yerkesh
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2022
Global COVID-19 pandemic forced the world to change. This affected various
institutions including educational ones. The current research is focused on the comparison of the
teaching experience of Kazakhstani school teachers before and during pandemic starting from
March 2020 until May 2021 while teaching was completely distant. The aim of the research is to
study the response of the local teachers and through using grounded theory as a method, to
propose an original theory about the COVID-19 situation using teachers’ viewpoint. The data
was collected through individual semi-structured interviews with 12 teachers of different
subjects including math, physics, English language, Kazakh language, and biology in schools.
According to the results, the age of the teacher is an important factor that affected the process of
adaptation to online teaching and its hardships, estimation of the effectiveness of pre- and during
pandemic teaching, preference of methods of teaching. The older was the teacher, the more
traditional ways like textbooks and offline teaching were preferred. The younger was a teacher,
the more digital and creative were methods of teaching such as games, competitions, group
works, Youtube, and online teaching were applied. It was also established that adaptation of
teachers of STEM subjects was harder than for teachers of languages because of the need to
compensate the absence of laboratory works in physics and biology classes during online
teaching lack of variety of methods of delivering. Finally, it was found that the main obstacles
faced during shifting to distance teaching are lack of support from school administration, issues
with separating work and family, social pressure, lack of motivation, stress, caused by mostly
social triggers.
Yerkesh Abaidylda (2022). Comparing the experience of Kazakhstani teachers before and during COVID-19 pandemic. Nazarbayev University, Nur-sultan, Kazakhstan
http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/6292
Type of access: Open Access
COVID-19 pandemic
Kazakhstani teachers
education
COMPARING THE EXPERIENCE OF KAZAKHSTANI TEACHERS BEFORE AND DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC
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Kalikhbayev, Nurislam
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Bissenova, Alima
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Medeuov, Darkhan
author
2022-05-07
People spend a considerable part of their life devoted to work. It is the gender, one of the
dimensions, that shapes the access to a specific profession and determines how others may
perceive you. For centuries society’s prescription on what work to go or what women should do
are constrained by discrimination. This notion of what is accessible to women must be differing
in various cultural settings. Kazakhstan is considered a post-Soviet country, such dominant
cultural ideology left a trace of structure on work dynamics: in the families, gender roles division
suggests the man’s role be a breadwinner, while women’s activity, though usually working,
prescribed to spend considerable time on house choruses. Still, this stereotypical gender division
has a heavy impact on the choice of work. Because when we look up at the gender composition
of a group who does this work, we may label it as feminine or masculine work – depending on
the prevalence of men or women. This labeling accompanies giving symbolic associations such
as power and prestige associated with a particular activity. Following that, normalizing it to be
men's or women’s work sets the norm for who can enter the job industry, which after that we
may think “this job is done only by men/women” (Gherardi 1994 cited in Johansson, Asztalos
Morell, and Lindell 2020: 4).
Nurislam Kalikhbayev, Alima Bissenova, Darkhan Medeuov.2022.Women in male-dominated industries in Nur-Sultan: policewomen and female manual workers autonomy, difficulties, and work culture. School of Sciences and Humanities
http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/6385
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Women
male-dominated industries
Nur-Sultan
policewomen
female manual workers
WOMEN IN MALE-DOMINATED INDUSTRIES IN NUR-SULTAN: POLICEWOMEN AND FEMALE MANUAL WORKERS AUTONOMY, DIFFICULTIES, AND WORK CULTURE
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Corsi, Marcella
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Ryan, J. Michael
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2022
When the first instances of the SARS-CoV-2 virus were reported in late 2019 and early 2020, there were few people who would have imagined the magnitude of the pandemic that we have experienced up to now.
News of the virus seemed contained mostly to the epidemiological community and very few social scientists, especially those outside of health research, were raising much of an eyebrow. It was at that time that IRS editorial board decided to launch a Call for papers to stimulate a debate about the COVID-19 pandemic – the socially constructed classification of the epidemiological spread of the virus – with the aim to develop analyses within a pluralistic research community in social sciences.
Corsi, M., & Ryan, J. M. (2022). What does the Covid-19 crisis reveal about interdisciplinarity in social sciences? Review of Sociology, 32(1), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1080/03906701.2022.2064695
http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/6982
Type of access: Open Access
Covid-19
crisis
social sciences
WHAT DOES THE COVID-19 CRISIS REVEAL ABOUT INTERDISCIPLINARITY IN SOCIAL SCIENCES?
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Kossanova, Aisulu
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2023
Friendship is a significant part of any human’s life, which has a certain degree of impact on almost all the other relationships and aspects of life. It has many different forms and varies depending on people who are in these relationships. In other words, every person has their own understanding of what friendship is, whom they call ‘friends’, what ‘friends’ are obliged to do in their relationships, and so on. A number of Western academics have already studied the topic from a sociological perspective, and, as a result, there are important findings that help to understand what effect friendship has on the society. However, it has not been studied much in Central Asia, not to mention the absence of research on friendship as a sociological phenomenon in Kazakhstan. Therefore, this capstone project will serve as one of the first research papers conducted on friendship as a sociological phenomenon among Kazakh youth (NU students, in particular). Thus, exploring the abovementioned aspects (that were observed in Western societies) in the context of Kazakhstani culture and the NU students will be beneficial.
Kossanova, A. (2023). The role of friendship in shaping NU students’ mindsets. School of Sciences and Humanities
http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/7172
Type of access: Embargo
NU students
friendship
THE ROLE OF FRIENDSHIP IN SHAPING NU STUDENTS’ MINDSETS
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Amirbekova, Jasmin
author
2023
Entrepreneurship has traditionally been viewed as an economic activity driven by market forces and individual interests. However, recent research has highlighted entrepreneurship's dynamic, contextual, and multilevel nature, mainly when carried out by women, and the potential for entrepreneurship to challenge gender-based stereotypes and biases against women. This issue is particularly relevant in the post-colonial context of Kazakhstan, where a pervasive "glass ceiling" effect hinders women's participation in public spaces. This study examines the lived experiences of 10 women entrepreneurs in Astana, ranging from small and medium-sized enterprises to the leaders of large corporations supporting other women in entrepreneurship. Through a qualitative research method, the study analyzes the "gendered" normative expectations in the Kazakh culture, the motivations of women entrepreneurs to start and support other women, and the challenges and changes. Additionally, the study analyzes government site statistics, indicating that the number of women entrepreneurs has doubled in the last decade. The
findings suggest that entrepreneurship not only serves as an "economic panacea" but also has the potential to challenge various gendered roles and expectations, providing women with the freedom of choice, flexibility, and agency they need to challenge patriarchal power and gender inequality. This research emphasizes the importance of women's solidarity in fighting gender discrimination and highlights the shared responsibility for the lives of others that women entrepreneurs can embody. Overall, the study demonstrates the potential of women's entrepreneurship as a means of challenging gender-based biases and stereotypes, providing new opportunities for women to take control of their economic and social lives, and contributing to the broader goal of gender equality in society.
Jasmin, A. (2023). For Women, Of Women and By Women: Studying Business from a Means of Livelihood to Driver of social change from a postcolonial perspective. School of Sciences and Humanities
http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/7192
women entrepreneurs
postcolonial perspective
gendered norms
glass ceiling
gender equality
solidarity
agency
social change
FOR WOMEN, OF WOMEN AND BY WOMEN: STUDYING BUSINESS FROM A MEANS OF LIVELIHOOD TO DRIVER OF SOCIAL CHANGE FROM A POSTCOLONIAL PERSPECTIVE
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Tanbayeva, Madina
author
2023
During the pandemic, almost all educational institutions adopted the online education format due to COVID-19. After two years of pandemic students returned to the traditional offline format of education. This paper investigates the transition process of students from the online to the offline format of education by applying the push-pull-mooring model from the migration studies. This research is based on the experience of Nazarbayev University students
Tanbayeva, M. (2023). Experience of Nazarbayev University students going through a transition from online to offline learning. School of Sciences and Humanities
http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/7194
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transition from offline to online mode of study
push-pull-mooring
adaptation
opportunities
challenges
behavior
EXPERIENCE OF NAZARBAYEV UNIVERSITY STUDENTS GOING THROUGH A TRANSITION FROM ONLINE TO OFFLINE LEARNING
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Mukhamejanova, Liliya
author
2023
This study explores the experience of Kazakh LGBTQ+ activists with a focus on their activist and intersectional identities, as well as their navigation of their work within a hegemonic state confronting non-cis-heteronormative people and expressions using the theories of intersectionality by Patricia Hill Collins and cultural hegemony by Antonio Gramsci. The study has a qualitative design, including seven personal interviews with adult self-identified LGBTQ+ activists, and uses inductive thematic analysis for data analysis. According to the results, Kazakhstani LGBTQ+ activists construct their identity based on a totality of intersectional social markers, the central basis of which is their non-cisheterosexuality, and internalize it as a special perspective of more privileged representatives of their group whose duty is to help less lucky ones. They manifest this identity for the most part through resistance to symbolic hegemonic norms, focusing on helping LGBTQ+ people on the ground and changing the narrative about them, either without interacting or experiencing negative interactions with agents of hegemony – the systemic structures of Kazakhstan and its public majority. The study recommends a replication of this study with some revisions for greater representativeness, as well as an additional quantitative project on the same topic and in-depth studies on some of the trends revealed here.
Mukhamejanova, L. (2023).Champions of Marginality: Kazakhstani LGBTQ+ rights activists’ identity and experience as contentious contributors to the welfare of society. School of Sciences and Humanities
http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/7196
Type of access: Open Access
Kazakhstan
activism
LGBTQ
intersectionality
hegemony
identity
CHAMPIONS OF MARGINALITY: KAZAKHSTANI LGBTQ+ RIGHTS ACTIVISTS’ IDENTITY AND EXPERIENCE AS CONTENTIOUS CONTRIBUTORS TO THE WELFARE OF SOCIETY
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Shakhtamirova, Amina
author
2023
This study examines the perception of cooking activity among Nazarbayev University
students and their families, with a focus on gender as a social construct. Through online
surveys and in-depth interviews, the research analyzes differences in cooking behavior
between male and female students, as well as their attitudes towards cooking responsibility in
relation to their current or ideal partners. The results of the work demonstrated that the
kitchen is predominantly viewed as a female space in the families of the students, with males
typically only cooking on special occasions. However, the study revealed a trend towards
more egalitarian attitudes towards cooking responsibility across generations. This suggests
that for students, cooking behavior is driven by personal desire and partner workload rather
than gender. Moreover, it was identified that males express and uphold their masculinity
through food choices, opting for either simple or complicated meat-centered dishes. The
preference for meat-centered dishes within the family may reflect social order and power
distribution, indicating male dominance over women in the household, as was discussed by
Sobal (2005, p.137). Overall, this study contributes to a better understanding of how gender
identity can be shaped through cooking among the youth and opens up opportunities for
further research on gender roles in culinary practices.
Shakhtamirova, A. (2023). Is cooking perceived as a gendered activity by NU students?. School of Sciences and Humanities
http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/7197
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cooking
gendered behavior
gender identity
students
gender norms
division of labor
IS COOKING PERCEIVED AS A GENDERED ACTIVITY BY NU STUDENTS?
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Omirkhanova, Akbota
author
2023
This study investigates the barriers that prevent women from progressing to upper management echelons in the workplaces in Kazakhstan. Using the qualitative method, namely semi-structured interviews, with six female top and upper managers in middle to large-sized companies, the paper examines the types of obstacles that they have faced in their career paths and ways they used to overcome them. The respondents were recruited through purposive and snowball sampling methods, while interviews longed for 30-60 minutes. The research found that they have experienced prevention from continuing education, subtle forms of discrimination in workplaces, and biased behaviour of colleagues. The study also identified that family-friendly practices such as remote work and flexible schedule conditions were effective in assisting women balance their job responsibilities and parenting. Moreover, the study found that women have to adopt social norms of behaviour for men such as assertiveness in order to see a progress in their careers. In general, the study points to the necessity to put greater attention to the obstacles in the career paths of women, and creates a vector for studying this issue further for other scholars.
Omirkhanova, A. (2023). Barriers in women's career progression in Kazakhstan: The experience of women in upper management. School of Sciences and Humanities
http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/7239
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upper management
women
career progression
Kazakhstan
BARRIERS IN WOMEN'S CAREER PROGRESSION IN KAZAKHSTAN: THE EXPERIENCE OF WOMEN IN UPPER MANAGEMENT.
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Muratova, Gulnur
author
2023
This capstone project explores the diet and spatial behavior of the Homo neanderthalensis through the Middle Paleolithic faunal assemblage of the Bronze Cave site from the excavations held in the 1970s. Bronze Cave is a part of the Tsutskhvati Cave complex in the Imereti region in the western part of the Republic of Georgia. A rich archaeological record of Middle to Upper Paleolithic periods in western Georgia is important for studies in human evolution through the attempts to reconstruct the transition between Neanderthals to Homo sapiens. The focus of this study is to examine the faunal remains through data collection and analyzing methods, such as context information, quantifiable data and types of surface modifications, as well as breakage patterns in attempts to reconstruct the hominin subsistence and utilization of the site, as well as an insight into the types of animals that inhabited the Bronze Cave site. The assemblage consists of 376 faunal skeletal elements and fragments of eleven identifiable genera. Other caves from the region, such as Ortvale Klde, Bondi Cave and Dzudzuana were used as a comparison for methodology, analysis and results due to the similarity in the climate, faunal collection and time period with only micro differences, which in turn can help gain valuable insights into the future research focused on the hominin and faunal behavior.
The results indicate that the site was used as a processing place for the transported limb bones due to the assemblage consisting of almost 70% by limb bones. Most of the cut marks refer to skinning, and the carnivore activity might indicate the animals’ access to the bones after the Neanderthals. The high number of Bison, Caucasian tur and Cave bear coincide with the results of the comparison sites. Lack of much weathering on the elements show that they were buried right after their death, which in turn point to the carnivore and hominins sharing the space. Spatial layout demonstrates that there was a somewhat designated place for processing of the bones by Neanderthals. However, any conclusions of this capstone is hindered by a small sample size and lack of piece plotting data.
Muratova, G. (2023). Neanderthal Subsistence and Spatial Behavior at a Paleolithic Site of Bronze Cave, Georgia. School of Sciences and Humanities
http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/7275
Type of access: Restricted
Homo neanderthalensis
Bronze Cave
Republic of Georgia
NEANDERTHAL SUBSISTENCE AND SPATIAL BEHAVIOR AT A PALEOLITHIC SITE OF BRONZE CAVE, GEORGIA
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Yussupova, Elmira
author
2023
Classroom bullying can be either prevented or intervened at schools by the teachers and other involved parties. The focus of this study was teachers’ involvement in this process of regulating bullying. As a result of qualitatively studying the anti-bullying methods of 11 teachers of one elite school in Kazakhstan, it has been identified that teachers of that school tend to give a preference to prevention of bullying over intervention. This is the result of their self-perception as successful and effective value inculcators, who can prevent bullying arousal at the school through transmitting the values of respect and unity than through observing and reporting on bullying according to their watchmen identity. This study presents a new outlook on the perceived level of bullying, teachers’ anti-bullying methods, self and social identities and shows how they are all interlinked through the prisms of Situational Crime Prevention and Identity Control Theories.
Yussupova, E. (2023). Regulating Aggression in a Classroom: Anti-Bullying Practices of Teachers. School of Sciences and Humanities
http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/7281
Type of access: Open Access
Anti-Bullying Practices
Aggression
Classroom
Teachers
REGULATING AGGRESSION IN A CLASSROOM: ANTI-BULLYING PRACTICES OF TEACHERS
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Armsan, Rebekka
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2023
This research project examines the experiences which young women who study at Nazarbayev University (NU) and identify themselves as feminists encountered in different social contexts in Kazakhstan (unfamiliar/familial/university contexts), what they link their experiences to and what specific situations they have been in because of their feminist identity expression. Comparison of the experiences of female university students in familiar and new and unfamiliar social contexts provides insights into the ways in which feminist identity is negotiated and adapted in different settings, how and under which circumstances feminist identity of Kazakhstani women is revealed and concealed. To understand more about feminist identities in various social contexts the Identity Salience Theory will be applied to explain some of the processes related to revealing/concealing feminist identity.
Armsan, R. (2023). How Female University Students in Kazakhstan Express Their Feminist Identity in Different Social Contexts: A Qualitative Study Based on Students at Nazarbayev University. School of Sciences and Humanities
http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/7335
Type of access: Open Access
Female University Students
Feminist Identity
Kazakhstan
Nazarbayev University
feminism
feminists
identity salience theory
HOW FEMALE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN KAZAKHSTAN EXPRESS THEIR FEMINIST IDENTITY IN DIFFERENT SOCIAL CONTEXTS: A QUALITATIVE STUDY BASED ON STUDENTS AT NAZARBAYEV UNIVERSITY