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The study was prompted by the lack of existing research with regard to what people locally think and believe about dreams. The study aimed to uncover, explore, and describe current, local dream related beliefs, discourses, and practices, using a postmodern, social-constructivist, as well as a generally sociological approach. In support of this aim, a literature review of various religious, cultural, and psychological dream related discourses was executed. Semi-structured, qualitative interviews were conducted with twenty respondents who were purposively selected from the administrative database of a Vaal-Triangle University on the basis of culture and gender. The interviews were recorded and the edited transcriptions thus derived served as basis for a thematic qualitative analysis of the respondents' dream related beliefs and practices. The findings were also examined with regard to cultural and gender related patterns, as well as in relation to existing dream discourses.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general

• Full title: Sociological exploration of current dream
• Author: Robert Blackburn
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 452
• EAN: 9783639059700
• ISBN: 3639059700
• ID: 06815375
• Publisher: VDM Verlag
• Weight: 658 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 26 mm
• Date of publishing: 16. May 2010

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