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Slavery, Sharecropping, And Sexual Inequality, Susan A. Mann

Sociology Faculty Publications

Focuses on black women's experiences in the transition from slavery to sharecropping in the South after the Civil War. Although the public and private domains of work became more differentiated, and a sexual division of labor in the home became more marked, the position of freedwomen nevertheless improved.

Role-Playing For Different Viewpoints (Review), Nicole Cauvin

Sociology Faculty Publications

Review by Nicole Cauvin.

Duncombe, S. and M.H. Heikkinen. "Role-Playing for Different Viewpoints." College Teaching 36 (1988):3-5.

Attrition In Batterers Counseling - The Role Of Social And Demographic-Factors, Alfred Demaris

Sociology Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Local Merchants And The Regional Economy Of The Connecticut River Valley, Gerald F. Reid

Sociology Faculty Publications

This paper focuses on valley/hill town interactions and regional economic processes in the upper Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Merchants, those individuals involved in the trading and movement of commodities, are an especially useful point of departure for investigating such concerns because they operated in the economic space between communities, towns, and regions. Attention to their activities is likely to tell us a good deal about economic interaction across space and" over long distances in early America and, specifically, about economic interactions between valley towns and hill towns in the Connecticut River …

In-Depth Interviewing In Family Medicine Research, Ralph Larossa

Sociology Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Breaking Away: A Study Of First Generation College Students And Their Families, Howard London

Sociology Faculty Publications

Detailed family histories were taken of students who were the first in their families to go to college. This paper utilizes the psychoanalytic and family systems theory of Helm Stierlin and others to explore (1) how college matriculation for first-generation students is linked to multi-generational family dynamics, and (2) how these students reconcile (or do not reconcile) the often conflicting requirements of family membership and educational mobility. The same modernity that creates the possibility of opportunity for these students is seen also to create the potential for biographical and social dislocation.

Emotions Are Social Things: An Essay In The Sociology Of Emotions, E. Doyle Mccarthy

Sociology Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.