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Class Structure In Australian History - Poverty And Progress, Terry Irving, Raewyn Connell

Terence H Irving, Dr (Terry)

First published in 1980, this book is an updated and reorganized account of the history of the class structure in Australia. A new chapter discusses the period 1975-1991, and there is a new theoretical chapter introducing the reader to modern debates about class. Separate sections for documents and photographs support the narrative. Extensive notes provide a guide to research literature.

Community Structural Changes And The Nature Of Leadership, Gina L. Gilbreath

Journal of Rural Social Sciences

Many communities in the Southeastern United States have experienced dramatic social and demographic change during the past two decades. Much of this change is brought about by population growth as well as other socioeconomic transformations such as increases in per capita income and educational attainment. One result has been an obvious change in leadership and social structure at the county level as engendered by these population and socio-economic factors. The objective of this research is to examine the nature of leadership and structural change in a Southern county that has been experiencing this categorical type of transformation. More specifically, this …

Agriculture, The Environment And Rural Sociology In The South, John K. Thomas

Journal of Rural Social Sciences

Agricultural conservation research was revived by rural sociologists in the late 1970s and gained momentum during the 1980s. Most of this research was focused, however, on social and farm organizational factors affecting technology adoption and diffusion. Few studies included environmental factors such as soil characteristics, land physiography, and climate. This paper reviews rural sociologists' recent attention to environmental factors. Next, it describes the ecological and agricultural variation among production regions in the South and overviews Southern producers' participation in federal farm conservation programs. Finally, it prescribes three tasks for rural sociologists in the South to consider if they are to …

Determinants Of Farmers' Satisfactions With Farming And With Life: A Replication And Extension, C. Milton Coughenour, Louis Swanson

Journal of Rural Social Sciences

The purpose of this study is to broaden the understanding of the determinants of farmers' satisfactions with life as a whole and with farming per se by replicating and extending Molnar's 1985 study of the overall subjective well-being of Alabama farmers. Data from a 1982 study of Kentucky farmers are used to accomplish this objective. Molnar's conclusions regarding the individual and structural determinants of farmers' global well-being are generally confirmed. In addition, the farmer's global satisfaction with life is shown to be related to his satisfaction with farming but the structural determinants of global and farm satisfaction differ. Net farm …

Job Placement Of Jtpa-Trained Welfare Recipients: Implications For The Jobs Program In Southern And Nonmetro States, Linda M. Ghelfi

Journal of Rural Social Sciences

The new Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Training Program was instituted to provide education, training, and employment for adults receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children. This study uses job placement rates for AFDC recipients trained through Job Training Partnership Act programs to gauge the difficulty participants in the new program may have in finding jobs. The results indicate that, at minimum, there would have been 56 percent more participants in the new JOBS program than there were in Job Training Partnership Act programs had the JOBS program started in the 1986 program year. Only about 60 percent of the …

Concern About Eating Genetically Engineered Food, Glenn D. Israel, Thomas J. Hoban

Journal of Rural Social Sciences

Concern about eating genetically engineered food is explored for a sample of residents from Florida and North Carolina. Previous research on consumers' food safety concerns and perceived risk associated with food production suggests that concern about genetically engineered food is influenced by three factors. Concern is influenced by how well informed consumers are about food technology, their capacity to understand that information, and the compatibility of genetic engineering with consumers' moral beliefs. Utilizing logistic regression, women and persons who viewed genetic engineering to be morally wrong were found to have greater concern about eating genetically engineered foods. Awareness and educational …

Employment Migration Among Graduates Of Southern Land-Grant Universities, John A. Ballweg, Li Li

Journal of Rural Social Sciences

This research addresses the geographic mobility of 2,028 graduates of 15 Southern land-grant universities. Concern was directed toward those who accepted positions outside the state where they graduated compared with those who remained within the state. The study uses panel data involving a 1976-77 survey while students were enrolled in an agriculture curriculum at land-grant schools and a follow-up survey a decade later. Migration patterns were identified and both demographic characteristics and employment history were examined. Migrant graduates were compared with non-migrant graduates according to what they considered important in accepting a first job as well as actual job earnings. …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 68, No. 27, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Bryan, Angela. Abduction, Rape Raise Concerns – WKU Police
• Cassady, Pam. Students Buzzing Over Near Beer
• Good, Epha. Student Works Missing from Ivan Wilson Fine Arts Center
• Burnham, Maria. Procrastination: Why Do Today What You Can Do Tomorrow?
• Here’s Wishing You a Hill of a Holiday
• Johnson, Steve. Editorial Cartoon Thomas Meredith Giving Santa Claus His List
• Simmons, Herb. Evaluations Tangled in Legality Concerns – Student Evaluations
• Stottmann, Stephanie. Capitol Arts Center Thanks Sorority Volunteers
• Payne, Daryl. Quit Whining About Tickets & Seating – Athletics …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 68, No. 26, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Cassady, Pam & Jim Hannah. I Feel Like We Should Have Been Asked – Faculty Senate, Thomas Meredith
• Nations, Jeff. Presidents Likely to Back Tuition Hike – Board of Student Body Presidents, Student Government Association
• Grundy, Julie. New Committee Tracks Faculty Pay
• Ang, Dawn. Somalia: Students Voice Opinions on Aid
• Messiah to Be Presented
• Preston Health & Activities Center Will Change Hours
• Hannah, Jim & Michael Lindenberger. Commonwealth Attorney Will Present Food Services Case – Dining Services
• Poynter, Chris. New Security Measures in Effect for …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 68, No. 25, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Hannah, Jim. Vote of Confidence Draws Faculty Debate – Faculty Senate, Thomas Meredith
• Nations, Jeff. Jack Harbaugh’s Future Settled – For Now At Least
• Wells, Greg. Changes Could Affect Awards – Student Financial Aid
• Cassady, Pam. Preston Health & Activities Center – Breaks for Christmas
• Student Ticket Policies in Place
• Faculty Senate’s Motives Should Be Questioned
• Johnson, Steve. Editorial Cartoon Faculty Senate Ambushes Thomas Meredith
• Fans Win With Ticket Pick-Up Policy
• Clark, Patrick. Homosexuality is Not Wrong
• Bunnell, David. Pro-Choice is Pro-Abortion
• Osborne, Jennifer. Welfare …

Women Make Trouble: Employers' Perceptions And Female Labor-Force Participation In The Tenth Of Ramadan, Rebecca Sewall

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Agrarian Legacy: A Study Of Political Structure And Ideology In Modern China, Zuo Xiang

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis presented to the faculty of the College of Education and Behavioral Sciences at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in Sociology by Zuo Xiang in December of 1992.

Women And Homelessness: Evidence Of Need To Look Beyond Shelters To Long Term Social Service Assistance And Permanent Housing, Elizabeth Huttman, Sonjia Redmond

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Based on two surveys of staff in 25 homeless shelters in the San Francisco Bay area, this study focuses on services to homeless women and their children. Both the advantages and disadvantages of shelter living are discussed, as well as obstacles to moving homeless women and their children into permanent housing. The survey finds that there is a need for rapid movement out of the shelters and a concomitant need for long term social services.

Salt, Vol. 12, No. 2, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

SALT. Published by the Salt Center for Documentary Field Studies. “Monica waitresses in a bar. What she does is not where she’s at. She’s waiting to get there. Call it the 20-nothings.”

Contents

• 3 Nineteen Pine Street Yes! Gallery hours year round begin in December, opening Salt’s documentary photography collection to the public for the first time.
• 4 Cambodian Wedding in Maine The bride and groom are part of Portland’s growing Cambodian community. Their traditional wedding ceremony took four hours and is important to preserving the customs of their ancestors.
• 15 Twenty Nothings Call them the twenty nothings crowd. Call …

Study On Street Children In Four Selected Towns In Ethiopia, Kevin Lalor, Angela Veale, Azeb Adefrisew, Unicef, University College Cork

Reports

The child is the most precious asset and the focal point of development for any country. However, unless children are brought up in a stimulating and conducive environment getting the best possible care and protection, their physical, mental, emotional and social development is susceptible to permanent damage. Ethiopia, being one of the least developed countries of the world due to interrelated and complex socio-economic factors including man-made and natural calamities, a large portion of our population - especially children - are victimized by social evils like famine, disease, poverty, mass displacement, lack of education and family instability. Owing to the …

Acting On Their Own Behalf: Affiliation And Political Mobilization Among Homeless People, Marcia B. Cohen, David Wagner

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Homeless people have been portrayed in the literature as passive, isolated, and unable to act on their own behalf. The authors discuss the findings of an ethnographic study of homeless activists which challenge the stereotypical view of homeless people as disaffiliated and disempowered. Collective social action was found to have a long term impact on access to material resources, development of social networks, and construction of positive homeless identity.

Poverty, Homelessness, And Racial Exclusion, John R. Belcher

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

This article reviews the societal forces that have made homelessness the end result of racial exclusion and inner city isolation. It is argued that significant societal change is necessary to reduce racial exclusion and prevent homelessness.

Absence Of A Family Safety Net For Homeless Families, Kay Young Mcchesney

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Analysis of data from interviews of 80 mothers in five shelters for homeless families suggests that the availability of housing support from kin may be a selection mechanism determining which families become homeless. The availability of kin housing support is seen as a function of four factors: family structure, proximity, control of adequate housing resources, and estrangement. Policy implications are discussed

Five Year Cohort Study Of Homeless Families: A Joint Policy Research Venture, John J. Stretch, Larry W. Kreuger

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Over the past ten years there have been significant investments in families uprooted by homelessness, but no data which clearly delineated what types of families had been helped, and how long help may have sustained them. Reported are preliminary data on 875 families who resided in a 60 day family shelter from 1983 through 1987. Field interviews in 1989 with 201 of those families provide data on residential history, employment, familial and demographic changes, service needs and additional homeless episodes. Policy questions focus on current residential stability and community reintegration.

Journal Of Sociology & Social Welfare Vol. 19, No. 4 (December 1992)

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

SPECIAL ISSUE ON HOMELESSNESS - Edited by Padmini Gulati

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• EDITORIAL - Padmini Gulati
• HOMELESSNESS IN PHILADELPHIA: A STUDY OF THE IMPACT OF STATE WELFARE REFORM ON INDIVIDUALS - Anthony Halter
• ACTING ON THEIR OWN BEHALF: AFFILIATION AND POLITICAL MOBILIZATION AMONG HOMELESS PEOPLE - Marcia B. Cohen and David Wagner
• POVERTY, HOMELESSNESS AND RACIAL EXCLUSION - John Belcher
• ABSENCE OF A FAMILY SAFETY NET FOR HOMELESS FAMILIES - Kay Young McChesney
• FIVE-YEAR COHORT STUDY OF HOMELESS FAMILIES: A JOINT POLICY RESEARCH VENTURE - John Stretch and Larry W. Kreuger
• WOMEN AND HOMELESSNESS: THE NEED TO LOOK BEYOND SHELTERS …

Entrepreneurial Activities Of Homeless Men, Steven Balkin

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Encouraging and assisting homeless people to become self-employed provides a way for some of them to increase their incomes, and may help close the gap between the cost of housing and labor market earnings. A survey of operators of homeless shelters was conducted to determine the types of work activities that adult homeless men participate in. Self-employment was found to be a common activity for a substantial proportion of adult homeless men; and a preferred mode of employment for many. Advantages and disadvantages of such an approach are discussed. Several program models are described which can be used to enhance …

The Construction Of The Right To Development: The United Nations, Human Rights, And Economic Development, Nader Izzat Said

Dissertations

The origins of human rights are of interest to social scientists. This study focuses on the construction process of the right to development as related to the UN. The emphasis is on the claims-making processes surrounding the creation of the right to development. To understand these processes, a theoretical framework has been developed. This framework combines interactionism, collective-behavior approaches, a dialectical theory of law-creation, and a capitalist world-economy theory. It is expected that this theoretical framework will explain the specific, organizational, and structural processes that led to the creation of the right to development.

Data for this study came from …

Gender Ideology And Drinking Norms: Content Analysis Of Alcohol Advertisements In Selected Magazines, 1973 To 1988, Sherry Jo Walker

Doctoral Dissertations

This content analysis compared gender-alcohol associations presented in alcohol advertisements in Ms. and Sports Illustrated from 1973 to 1988. Analysis focused on (1) changes in gender representations during a period of transitional female roles, (2) relative frequencies of cognitive and emotion-inducing themes appearing in sex specific alcohol advertising, and (3) drinking norms presented by alcohol advertisers during a period characterized by criticism of alcohol marketing.

Portrayals of women did not accurately reflect the actual employment status of women. Images of feminism were superficial portrayals of women imitating men (e.g., whiskey consumption) or presented feminists as decorative objects. From 1973 to …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 68, No. 24, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Hannah, Jim. Football Ticket Sales Up, But Miss Goal
• Burnham, Maria. Malcolm X: Movie Opens Eyes, Minds
• Armes, Anya. Higher Education Budget Cuts Signal Ominous Future
• Poyner, Chris. Congregation Perseveres Ashes of Hate – Barren River Baptist Church, Arson, Larry Craig
• Student Helps Police Nab Man – Duncan Gibson
• Higher Education is Still Education
• Johnson, Steve. Editorial Cartoon Higher Education in Hospital
• Smith, Adam. Homosexuality is Morally Wrong – Gays, Lesbians
• Houchens, Gary. Pro-Choice, Not Pro-Abortion
• Reese, Jason. Lou Marciani Rude to Topper Pep Band …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 68, No. 23, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Hannah, Jim. Mice Roam Pearce-Ford Tower – Housing & Residence Life
• Lewis, Brandi. Homosexuals Often Excluded From Society, Workshop Teaches – Gays, Lesbians
• Grundy, Julie. Tuition May Go Up Again
• Some Smokers Kick Habit Today – Great American Smokeout
• David Lee Will Remain Interim Dean – Potter College of Arts & Letters
• Hannah, Jim. Food Services Investigation Will Be Heard by Grand Jury – Dining Services
• Bryan, Angela. Police Look for Rape Suspect
• Bryan, Angela. No Indictments Handed Down in Fight
• Johnson, Steve. Editorial Cartoon …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 68, No. 22, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Hannah, Jim & Michael Lindenberger. Grand Jury Will Listen to Evidence – Dining Services
• Bricking, Tanya. Programs Not In Danger Yet – Budget
• Lockert, Anya. Hobby Drags Microbiologist Out of Lab – Mark Clauson, Automobile Racing
• Tungate, Matthew. Students in New Coed Hall Left Out in Cold Shower – Zacharias Hall
• Bryan, Angela. Buildings to Set Own Smoking Policy
• Nations, Jeff. Student Government Association Takes to the Airwaves – WWHR-FM
• Wells, Greg. WKYU-FM Fund Drive a Success
• Students Should Take Responsibility for Campus Safety
• Johnson, …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 68, No. 21, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Cassady, Pam. We Should Not Kill to Teach That Killing is Wrong – Capital Punishment
• Nevels, Jill. Students Camp for Cause – Shantytown, Homelessness
• Bryan, Angela. Student Who Transferred Says Western is Not Safe – WKU Police, Michelle Schutt
• Lindenberger, Michael. Kentucky Universities Undergoing Revolution
• It’s the End (Zone) for Student Seating – Athletics
• Johnson, Steve. Editorial Cartoon Donors Taking Students Seats – Athletics
• Call Waiting, Waiting & Waiting – Telephone Directories
• Ferguson, Betsy & Patti Jeannette. Students Should Be Able to Designate Fees
• Armstrong, …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 68, No. 20, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Poynter, Chirs. Budget Cuts Put Western in Jeopardy
• Brewer, Mike. Talks Continue with Teamsters – Facilities Services
• Good, Epha. The Cellar: Dances Moved from West Hall to Garrett Ballroom
• College Heights Herald, Western Won’t Sever Ties
• Bryan, Angela. Student Transfers After Fight – Michelle Schutt
• Nevels, Jill. Shantytown an Opportunity to Help Homeless People
• WKYU Listeners Must Put Money Where Music Is
• Johnson, Steve. Editorial Cartoon WKYU-FM Fund Raising
• Vance, Nann. Respect Others in Grise Elevator
• Bledsow, Charles. Fill Diddle Arena for Ralph Willard
• Johnson, …

Ua12/8 Parking Solutions, Carol Graham, Wku Management 310

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Letter from Carol Graham to Horace Johnson regarding Management 310 class solutions to WKU's parking issues.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 68, No. 19, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Tatum, Doug. Crisis Looms at Universities
• Thomas, Kim. Cable TV Might Tune Out Study – Housing & Residence Life
• Lindenberger, Michael. College Heights Herald: Paper Wins National Pacemaker Award
• Lockert, Anya. Students Stirred by Election Madness – Politics
• State Band Competition Saturday
• Health Screening Available – Health Toppers
• Cassady, Pam & Maria Burnham. While Democrats Party, Republicans Keep the Faith
• Newman, Stephen. Western Must Stay in Sun Belt Conference
• Johnson, Steve. Editorial Cartoon Bill Clinton’s Wardrobe
• Smith, David. Knowledge Can Destroy Homophobia – Gays, Lesbians …