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The Social Ministries Of American Baptist Churches And Clergy, Sherrie Steiner, Donald Gray, Margaret Ferrell Nov 2002

The Social Ministries Of American Baptist Churches And Clergy, Sherrie Steiner, Donald Gray, Margaret Ferrell

Sherrie M Steiner

No abstract provided.


1848 In 1998: The Politics Of Commemoration In Hungary, Romania, And Slovakia, Rogers Brubaker, Margit Feischmidt Sep 2002

1848 In 1998: The Politics Of Commemoration In Hungary, Romania, And Slovakia, Rogers Brubaker, Margit Feischmidt

Rogers Brubaker

No abstract provided.


Poetry And Public Life, Charles Lemert Jul 2002

Poetry And Public Life, Charles Lemert

Charles C Lemert

The public life is one entered more by the patience of the poetic ear than by the sharpness of the pen or the truth of the facts.


Gifts For The Soul: A Guided Journey Of Discovery, Transformation, And Infinite Possibilities (Book Author, Dawn E. Clark; Book Reviewer, Carroy Ferguson)), Carroy U. Ferguson Apr 2002

Gifts For The Soul: A Guided Journey Of Discovery, Transformation, And Infinite Possibilities (Book Author, Dawn E. Clark; Book Reviewer, Carroy Ferguson)), Carroy U. Ferguson

Carroy U "Cuf" Ferguson, Ph.D.

Dawn E. Clark's Gifts for the Soul is an intriguing self-help book, full of promise and hope for a new way to engage in self-healing and what the author calls soul healing through soul retrieval work. According to the author, the ancient healing tradition of soul retrieval to heal soul loss has been documented by many cultural anthropologists. The tradition apparently has been traced to a belief in the ancient concept of soul loss, embraced by many civilizations and diverse cultures in North America, Australia, Asia, South America and the shaman tradition as far back as 10,000 years ago. Soul …


Dealing With Whiteness: The Use Of History And Epistemology To Explore Racism, Jesse Benjamin Mar 2002

Dealing With Whiteness: The Use Of History And Epistemology To Explore Racism, Jesse Benjamin

Jesse Benjamin

No abstract provided.


"Vampiri" A Trani. Metti Un Masso Sul Morto Iapigio, Giacomo Annibaldis Mar 2002

"Vampiri" A Trani. Metti Un Masso Sul Morto Iapigio, Giacomo Annibaldis

Dr Anastasia Tsaliki, PhD

No abstract provided.


After The Wizard, What?, Charles Lemert, Audrey Sprenger Feb 2002

After The Wizard, What?, Charles Lemert, Audrey Sprenger

Charles C Lemert

No abstract provided.


Ecological Capitalism As International Peacemaking: An Alternative To Conflict At "The End Of History", Sherrie Steiner Dec 2001

Ecological Capitalism As International Peacemaking: An Alternative To Conflict At "The End Of History", Sherrie Steiner

Sherrie M Steiner

No abstract provided.


Living History In Zapopan. (Democracy In Latin America: Looking Back, Thinking Ahead), Richard Mora Dec 2001

Living History In Zapopan. (Democracy In Latin America: Looking Back, Thinking Ahead), Richard Mora

Richard Mora

No abstract provided.


The Person With Alzheimer's Disease : Pathways To Understanding The Experience, Phyllis Harris Dec 2001

The Person With Alzheimer's Disease : Pathways To Understanding The Experience, Phyllis Harris

Phyllis Braudy Harris

No abstract provided.


Rural Migrants In Shanghai: Living Under The Shadow Of Socialism, Wang Feng, Xuejin Zou, Danching Ruan Dec 2001

Rural Migrants In Shanghai: Living Under The Shadow Of Socialism, Wang Feng, Xuejin Zou, Danching Ruan

Dr. RUAN, Danching

No abstract provided.


The Controllers And The Controlled - Interactions Of Staff And Clients In The Social Service And Criminal Justice Systems, Deborah Whitley, Paula Dressel Dec 2001

The Controllers And The Controlled - Interactions Of Staff And Clients In The Social Service And Criminal Justice Systems, Deborah Whitley, Paula Dressel

Deborah M. Whitley

No abstract provided.


Social Capital And Electronic Networks: For Profit Vs. For Community Approaches, John Sullivan, Eugene Borgida, Melinda Jackson, Eric Riedel, Alina Oxendine, Amy Gangl Dec 2001

Social Capital And Electronic Networks: For Profit Vs. For Community Approaches, John Sullivan, Eugene Borgida, Melinda Jackson, Eric Riedel, Alina Oxendine, Amy Gangl

Alina Oxendine

In this article, the authors discuss the implementation of a community electronic network in a rural Minnesota town. The network is intended to help the community keep up with global technological progress by increasing access to the Internet. The current project compares this community approach to electronic networks with an economic, for-profit approach utilized in a nonequivalent control community. Drawing on the theory of social capital, the authors consider the relative impacts of privately oriented social engagement versus publicly oriented political engagement in relation to collective outcomes. The findings to date show that in the presence of a broadly based …


"I'M Not A Racist, But...": The Moral Quandary Of Race, Lawrence Blum Dec 2001

"I'M Not A Racist, But...": The Moral Quandary Of Race, Lawrence Blum

Lawrence Blum

Not all racial incidents are racist incidents, Lawrence Blum says. "We need a more varied and nuanced moral vocabulary for talking about the arena of race. We should not be faced with a choice of 'racism' or nothing." Use of the word "racism" is pervasive: An article about the NAACP's criticism of television networks for casting too few "minority" actors in lead roles asks, "Is television a racist institution?" A white girl in Virginia says it is racist for her African-American teacher to wear African attire.Blum argues that a growing tendency to castigate as "racism" everything that goes wrong in …


Troubled Images: Posters And Images Of The Northern Ireland Conflict From The Linen Hall Library, Belfast, Allan Leonard Dec 2001

Troubled Images: Posters And Images Of The Northern Ireland Conflict From The Linen Hall Library, Belfast, Allan Leonard

Allan Leonard

Troubled Images is the first major publication of the posters of the Northern Ireland conflict. The 124-page book contains 140 illustrations (115 in full colour) and detailed accounts of 70 posters of a travelling international exhibition.

The book includes an overview essay, ‘Visualising the Troubles’, written by Belinda Loftus, an expert on graphic imagery and author of Mirror: Orange and Green.

Informative commentaries to the featured exhibition posters are written by John Gray, Librarian of the Linen Hall Library, Belfast.

Edited by a diverse team of four, and scrutinised by a large project team, the entire spectrum of the Northern …


A Tale Of Two Towns: Assessing The Role Of Political Resources In A Community Electronic Network, John Sullivan, Eugene Borgida, Melinda Jackson, Eric Riedel, Alina Oxendine Dec 2001

A Tale Of Two Towns: Assessing The Role Of Political Resources In A Community Electronic Network, John Sullivan, Eugene Borgida, Melinda Jackson, Eric Riedel, Alina Oxendine

Alina Oxendine

In this study we examine responses to the recent expansion of information technology in two rural Minnesota towns. One of these towns took a cooperative approach to technology access, developing a community electronic network, while the other town relied on a more individualistic, entrepreneurial model. The present study examines citizens' attitudes concerning social, political, and technological issues in these two communities, with the goal of uncovering what kinds of attitudes and resources citizens need to have in order to help support and sustain a community electronic network. Structural equation modeling is used to specify the relationships among individuals' economic, political, …


Civic Culture Meets The Digital Divide: The Role Of Community Electronic Networks Dec 2001

Civic Culture Meets The Digital Divide: The Role Of Community Electronic Networks

Alina Oxendine

The concept of social capital reflects the norms and social relations embedded in the social structure of societies that enable people to coordinate community action to achieve desired goals. Our research focuses on the role that norms of cooperation and civic and political culture play in addressing the “digital divide” in computer use and Internet access. We review evidence from mail surveys of randomly selected respondents in two rural Minnesota communities as well as qualitative focus group and archival evidence suggesting that the communities have adopted different approaches to technology diffusion. Whether information technology is viewed as a public or …


Trafficking In Women From Ukraine, Donna M. Hughes Dr., Tatyana Denisova Dec 2001

Trafficking In Women From Ukraine, Donna M. Hughes Dr., Tatyana Denisova

Donna M. Hughes

Report on research carried out as part of the U.S. Ukraine Research Partnership, the International Center of the U.S. National Institute of Justice and the Ukrainian Academy of Legal Sciences


Scholar Or Baller In American Higher Education? A Visual Elicitation And Qualitative Assessment Of The Studentathlete's Mindset, Keith Harrison Dec 2001

Scholar Or Baller In American Higher Education? A Visual Elicitation And Qualitative Assessment Of The Studentathlete's Mindset, Keith Harrison

Dr. C. Keith Harrison

Eminent scholar Harry Edwards (2000) has articulated three major realities of African American males in sports: a) The presumption of innate, race-linked black athletic superiority and intellectual deficiency; b) media propaganda portraying sports as a broadly accessible route to African American social and economic mobility; and c) a lack of comparably visible, high-prestige African American role models beyond the sports arena. Driven by labeling theory (Becker, 1963; Goffman, 1959), eight African American male student athletes were surveyed and interviewed. The last two points of Edwards' scholarship were investigated. "We have pretty good historical data and quantitative data about African American …


African American Racial Identity And Sport, Keith Harrison Dec 2001

African American Racial Identity And Sport, Keith Harrison

Dr. C. Keith Harrison

The purpose of this paper is to attempt to synthesize and apply African American racial identity theory and related research to the development of sport and physical activity patterns and preferences in African American youth. Historically the African American over-representation in particular sports phenomena has been examined genetically, anthropocentrically, physiologically, sociologically, and psychologically. The profusion of explanations is a testimony to the complexity of this phenomena. This manuscript provides yet another compelling perspective. Cross [(1995) The psychology of Nigrescence: revising the Cross Model, in: J.G. PONTEROTTO et al. (Eds) Handbook of Multicultural Counseling (Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage)] outlines the metamorphic …


The Might Have Been And Could Be Of Religion In Social Theory, Charles C. Lemert Dec 2001

The Might Have Been And Could Be Of Religion In Social Theory, Charles C. Lemert

Charles C Lemert

Religion may well be the most inscrutable surd of social theory, which began late in the 19th century dismissing the subject. Not even the renewal of interest in religion in the 1960s did much to make religion a respectable topic in social theory. It is possible that social theory’s troubles are, in part, due to its refusal to think about religion. Close examination of social theories of Greek religion suggest, for principal example, that religion is perfectly able to thrive alongside the profane provided both are founded on principles of finitude, which in turn may be said to be the …


Interracial Couples Experience Of Leisure: A Social Network Approach, Dan K. Hibbler Ph.D. Dec 2001

Interracial Couples Experience Of Leisure: A Social Network Approach, Dan K. Hibbler Ph.D.

Dan K Hibbler Ph.D.

There has been a significant amount of research that has indicated divergent patterns of leisure participation among African Americans and European Americans;however, there has been a paucity of research that addresses the leisure patterns of interracial couples and families. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the leisure patterns of interracial couples and families, specifically African American and European American couples. A qualitative design was employed to gather in-depth interview data from six couples. The findings indicated that the interracial couples felt socially isolated in various aspects of daily life, including work, family, and leisure. The primary cause …


Who Can A Baller Trust? Analyzing Public University Response To Alleged Student-Athlete Misconduct In A Commercial And Confusing Environment, Keith Harrison Dec 2001

Who Can A Baller Trust? Analyzing Public University Response To Alleged Student-Athlete Misconduct In A Commercial And Confusing Environment, Keith Harrison

Dr. C. Keith Harrison

No abstract provided.


Ethnicity Without Groups, Rogers Brubaker Dec 2001

Ethnicity Without Groups, Rogers Brubaker

Rogers Brubaker

No abstract provided.


Trafficking For Sex Exploitation: The Case Of The Russian Federation, Donna M. Hughes Dr. Dec 2001

Trafficking For Sex Exploitation: The Case Of The Russian Federation, Donna M. Hughes Dr.

Donna M. Hughes

No abstract provided.


September 11 Attacks And Surviving Same-Sex Partners: Defining Family Through Tragedy, Nancy J. Knauer Dec 2001

September 11 Attacks And Surviving Same-Sex Partners: Defining Family Through Tragedy, Nancy J. Knauer

Nancy J. Knauer

The September 11 relief efforts present a unique prism through which to view the status of same-sex relationships and to consider which families count when the United States is supposedly at its most generous, most united, and most injured. On a basic human level, would the nation grieve for Peggy Neff, who lost her partner of 18 years when Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon, as it had for the widow of a fire fighter? Would Neff be eligible to file a claim with the multi-billion dollar federal September 11 Victim Compensation Fund, which Congress established to compensate victims and …


New Strategies And Collaborations Target Homelessness, Dennis P. Culhane Dec 2001

New Strategies And Collaborations Target Homelessness, Dennis P. Culhane

Dennis P. Culhane

No abstract provided.


Constitutional Courts And Parliamentary Democracy (Special Issue On Delegation), Alec Stone Sweet Dec 2001

Constitutional Courts And Parliamentary Democracy (Special Issue On Delegation), Alec Stone Sweet

Alec Stone Sweet

No abstract provided.


The Pervasive Effects Of Network Content, Elisabeth Brooke Harrington Dec 2001

The Pervasive Effects Of Network Content, Elisabeth Brooke Harrington

Brooke Harrington

While network research has become increasingly important to our understanding of organizations, there is growing speculation that the current structural approach may misspecify the nature of network effects by ignoring variation in the content of relational ties (e.g., Podolny and Baron 1997). Network research to date has focused on the structural properties of networks—the overall patterns of connection—to the neglect of qualitative dimensions of relationships (Ibarra 1992). Several recent studies have explicitly called for new research dedicated to “delineating the critical role of tie content” in organizational networks (Gulati and Westphal 1999: 499). Studying tie content, according to these authors, …


A Convict Criminology Approach To Classification Of Prisoners, Stephen C. Richards, Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D. Dec 2001

A Convict Criminology Approach To Classification Of Prisoners, Stephen C. Richards, Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D.

Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D.

No abstract provided.