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Gated Communities As Public Entities, Dennis W. Stransky
Gated Communities As Public Entities, Dennis W. Stransky
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
Gated Communities as Public Entities identifies these organizations as phenomena of recent land development practices. The topics discussed include the history of private dwelling associations, the makeup of these organizations, and the parallels between them and their larger, public counterparts. Specific areas such as taxes, infrastructure, codes covenants and restrictions, and law enforcement are discussed in detail. Gated Communities have become a large part of the available housing choices for many homebuyers. Approximately one-third of the homes constructed today are part of private associations created as various forms of private corporations. The laws related to the creation of private corporations …
Environmental Sociology: An Analysis Of Trends, Gregory M. Fulkerson
Environmental Sociology: An Analysis Of Trends, Gregory M. Fulkerson
Masters Theses
This thesis describes the current status of environmental sociology, and presents an invitation to the reader to engage in the topic of the environment. It begins with a review of the literature, focusing on the origins of sociology and the theory of ecology, and presents the framework for the content analysis. The content analysis investigates the content and number of environmental sociology articles in mainstream sociological journals. In addition to the articles themselves, it analyzes the schools and authors of these articles. This analysis is supplemented with an analysis of environmental journals, enumerating the total number of environmental journals in …
Social Neglect Of The Inequality Of The Native American Peoples, Loretta K. Carroll
Social Neglect Of The Inequality Of The Native American Peoples, Loretta K. Carroll
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 Sociology by Loretta K. Carroll on January 19, 2000.