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Farley, Seth Thomas, Jr., 1917-1999 (Mss 617), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 617. Correspondence, documents, news clippings and ephemera from Seth Thomas Farley, Jr., a life-long educator. This collection includes a good deal of information about Farley’s teaching career prior to his work as a professor at WKU, his involvement in organizations that fought alcoholism and gambling (particularly the lottery in Kentucky), his church work, and his service on a committee to choose a federal magistrate for the western district of Kentucky. The collection includes an entire box of assessment related material related to Fort Knox Dependent Schools in the mid-1960s.

Libertinism: An Alternative To Traditional Religion, Jerome E. Johnson

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

In recent years there has been a considerable increase in the amount of empirical research done in the area of the sociology of religion. Most of this type of research has been a gradual attempt of working toward the possibility of establishing a casual relationship between religious beliefs and human social behavior.

The Ministry: An Empirical Analysis Of Roles And Role Discord With Emphasis On Rural-Urban Differentials, Orville R. Cunningham

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Ministers occupy a status-position within a social system that carries a well-defined set of cultural expectations about their roles. The membership of the minister’s church, the community at large, and the minister himself formulate ideas and expectations about the function of his roles. Whenever the minister performs his roles in a manner that is contrary to the expectations of the membership of his church or the community the result is a role discord. Role discord also occurs when the minister performs his roles in a way that contradicts his own self-image of his roles. Therefore, this thesis will have as …

Ua68/10/1 Sociological Symposium No. 4 – The Sociology Of Early Adulthood, Wku Sociology

WKU Archives Records

Table of Contents:

• Balswick, Jack O. & Charles W. Peek. The Inexpressive Male & Family Relationships During Early Adulthood
• Birkelbach, Ronald D. & Louis A. Zurcher, Jr. Some Socio-Political Characteristics of Anti-Pornography Campaigners
• Doby, John T. Social Change, Conflict & Planning: A Theoretical Interpretation
• Elder, Glen H. Jr. Marriage Mobility, Adult Roles & Personality
• Fendrich, James M. & Michael A. Pearson. Alienation & Its Correlates Among Black Veterans
• Jackson, Audrey R. The Changing Parent: An Evaluation of Miller & Swanson’s Socialization Thesis

Ua68/10/1 Sociological Symposium No. 3 – The Sociology Of The Middle Years, Wku Sociology

WKU Archives Records

Table of Contents:

• Bart, Pauline B. Why Women’s Status Changes in Middle Age
• Bourque, Linda Brookover & Kurt W. Back. The Middle Years Seen Through the Life Graph
• Davidson, James D. Religious Involvement & Middle Age
• Deutscher, Irwin. From Parental to Post-Parental Life: Exploring Shifting Expectations
• Geschwender, James A. & Benjamin D. Singer. Riot Participation & the Middle Years
• Herb, Terry R. Middle Age & Aging: Neugarten’s Approach
• Levin, Jack & Gerald Taube. Attitudes Toward Public Housing Among Middle Age Tenants
• Levin, Martin L., William W. Pendleton & Lewis Bowman. Political Partisanship of Middle Age Voters
• Mayer, Thomas F. Middle …

Ua68/10/1 Sociological Symposium No. 2 – Supplement To The Sociology Of The Elderly, Wku Sociology

WKU Archives Records

Table of Contents:

• Sister M. Ann Amen. Book Review of Marvin R. Koller’s Social Gerontology
• Hepler, Harold R. A Coordinated & Supplementary Bibliography on the Sociology of the Elderly