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Journal Of Sociology & Social Welfare Vol. 3, No. 4 (March 1976)

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Issue Editor: PRANAB CHATTERJEE, School of Applied Social Sciences, CASE-WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY

• Editorial, pp. 370
• Philosophy, Sociology and The Theory of Social Welfare: A Conceptual Starting Point - ROBERT D. HERMAN, pp. 371
• Evaluation Research: Some Possible Contexts of Theory Failure - PRANAB CHATTERJE, LENORE OLSEN, THOMAS P. HOLLAND, pp. 384
• Social Participation and Social Integration of The Aged: Implications for Social Welfare - ELLEN FISCHGHUND, pp. 409
• Public Housing for the Elderly - CARA J. ORBEN, pp. 421
• Block Clubs and Social Action: A Case Study In Community Conflict - MOHAN L. KAUL, pp. 437
• An Analysis of Political …

Block Clubs And Social Action: A Case Study In Community Conflict, Mohan L. Kaul

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

A "Block Club" may be defined as a group of citizens in a neighborhood who get together and work together to improve their neighborhood. Kahn defines "block organizing as a highly manageable technique, usually "an urban technique" (1970:36). In this context, "organizing may be viewed as a means of achieving and guiding local control over problems that orginate elsewhere in society" (Ecklein & Lauffer 1972:11). shereas services focus on individual needs, organizing focuses on the location of common problems and joint efforts aimed at their solution. Community organizers have generally used a natural leader-informal association approach to organizing Block Clubs …

Patterns Of Local Leadership Among Lake Nasser Fishermen, Nirvana A Essawi Khadr

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Role Of Mass Communications In Inter-State Conflict, Olfat Hassan Muhamed Agha

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Flor-Ala Vol. 45 No. 9, University Of North Alabama

Flor-Ala 1970-1979

1976-01-21

The Vanguard (Vol. 23, No. 6), Jul-Aug 1976, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

A resolution calling for support of American Indians as they seek treaty rights and assistance in legal action was adopted at the annual meeting of the Lutheran Human Relations Association of America. The National Indian Lutheran Board earlier had asked Lutheran churches and organizations to adopt the statement. (VANGUARD, June 1976)

The Effect Of Failure On Self-Concept, Merle Sprinzen

Honors Papers

This paper explores the effects of failure on an individual's self-concept. A model based on symbolic interaction and attribution theories, among others, is elaborated to predict how an individual's self-concept will be affected by failure situations. It is argued that where the individual chooses to attribute causality for failure in the situation will determine the effects of that failure on his self-concept, unless the individual's belief system modifies the attribution process. This attribution is related to one major individual difference: a person's generalized expectancy for control. It is hypothesized that an individual's predisposition to conceive of causality as deriving from …

Ua1d Kenneth Clarke, Wku Human Resources

WKU Administration Documents

Personnel file of professor Kenneth Clarke, includes correspondence and newspaper clippings.

A Constantinois View Of The Algerian Society: A Study In Continuity And Change, Gamila Mahmud Abdel Wahab

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Influence Of Population Knowledge And Concern On Acceptable Family Sizes And Expected Family Size, Nancy Ross Hugo

Theses and Dissertations

This study focused on the influence of population knowledge and population concern on acceptable family sizes and expected family size. Analysis of the responses of 212 students in Introductory Sociology classes to a questionnaire survey revealed that the greater the student's population knowledge, the greater the degree of concern over population growth. Furthermore, the study revealed a stronger relationship between general knowledge of population processes and population concern than between specific knowledge of population sizes and growth rates and population concern.

Analysis of the relationship between population concern and acceptable family sizes revealed that the greater the degree of concern …

Correlates Of Leadership Attractedness Among Instrumental And Expressive Voluntary Service Organizations In Fall River And Meade Counties Of South Dakota, William Wakefield

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

A study of the voluntary service organizations in Fall River and Meade counties of South Dakota was conducted during 1975 to determine: 1. The various voluntary associations in Fall River and Meade counties and their functions. 2. The leaders of the various voluntary associations in these two counties, their socioeconomic characteristics, and their attractedness to these organizations. 3. Whether those leaders who are characterized as either instrumental or expressive members have joined voluntary associations because of the association's perceived instrumental or expressive orientation, or because of some other not so apparent reasons. The respective leader of the voluntary associations is …

An Ecological Analysis Of Migration Patterns In North Dakota And South Dakota, Hadley Gerald Klug

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

An analysis of socioeconomically defined ecological areas through the replication of the patterned factorial design developed by Loeb! at the University of Missouri-Columbia. The major emphases of the study were to: (1) delineate homogeneous, although not necessarily contiguous, social areas using the patterned factorial design; (2) determine the capability of the previously delineated social areas to account for significant amounts of variation in residually measured net migration; (3) compare the procedures and results of the present study with those of Loebl's work. The study region consists of the states of North Dakota and South Dakota. The units of analysis are …

Comparative Criminology, Denis Szabo

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.

Humanism As Demystification, Alfred Mcclug Lee

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Under a variety of labels, many academic disciplines focus on the unsettling impact of fresh and vivid interpersonal experiences upon pre-existing beliefs and behaviour patterns. Reference is to philosophical discussions of sophism and humanism, historical theories about frontier influences, anthropological interest in culture shock, psychiatric concern with empathy and with perceptive listening, and sociological analyses of marginality, uses of participant observation and life-history data, and clinical studies of social behavior. Their significant similarity is that they are all discussions of demystifying influences on social thought and action. They are demystifying in the sense that they tend to translate the distant, …

The Image Of Provo, Utah, As Seen Through The Perceptions Of Its Residents, J. Larry Murdock

Theses and Dissertations

The data for this study was gathered through a random stratified geographic sample from all residential areas of Provo. The study was based on 84 completed questionnaires which were gathered on the basis of a broad socio-economic cross section. All of the questions were open-ended, and included the drawing of mental maps of residents' images of Provo. The data was analyzed on the basis of respondents' areas of residence, age, length of residence in Provo and religious background.

The purpose of the study was to focus on the visual perception of Provo, Utah, as seen by its residents. The study …

An Analysis Of Attitudes Navajo Community Leaders Have Toward A Religion Sponsored Program Based Upon Membership Of That Faith And Amount Of Information Attained, Howard Rainer

Theses and Dissertations

The problem is to analyze the opinions of the Navajo community leadership towards a religion sponsored program, as related to their exposure to information about the program and to othether social variables. Specifically, this study is concerned with two main questions:
1. Is the reaction among Navajo community leaders towards the LDS Indian Placement Program related to the amount of information they have available about that program?
2. Is the attitudes of Navajo community leaders concerning the Placement Program related to their social economic status of age, religious affiliation, and other such variables?

The Punishment Of Divorced Mothers, Herman Borenzweig

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

As the clinical social worker to seven young divorced mothers I began to wonder why the lives of these women had become so remarkably unbearable. I compared the experiences of the women who were coming to me for group psychotherapy with about thirty similar divorced mothers who were also members of the West Side Jewish Community Center of Los Angeles. All the women were experiencing similar difficulties. I also explored some of the literature about the problems faced by divorced mothers! This essay is the culmination of my research. It summarizes some of my conjectures about the disadvantaged social status …

The Occupational Reengagement Of Widows In The Chicago Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area, Frank Steinhart

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 51, No. 30, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Halicks, Richard. 107 Are in Camellia Bowl Entourage
• Harris, Roger & Neil Budde. Associated Student Government Seeks Support with Petition
• Hohman, Pat. Kit-Makers Apologize for No Fruit
• Mami, Alfina. Associated Student Government to Discuss Concert Appeals
• Skees, Janet. Computer Cards to Replace Information Sheets
• Herald Editors for Spring Are Named – Neil Budde, Betsy Leake
• Two are Fined; Freshman Bound Over to Grand Jury
• Jim McDaniels Case is Reminder: Penalties Can Be Very Costly
• New Cards in Registration Packet Should Result in Accurate Data
• Venusians …

Social Research On Housing In The United States: Directions And Themes, Shirley S. Angrist

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

I shall present a selective overview of recent themes and directions in social research on housing in the U.S. I narrowed the topic by focusing on research centering on the family and on neighborhood. These topics offer ways to concentrate on "social" research and to narrow a rather broad topic.

My meaning of "social" research encompasses work not only by sociologists. It also includes the separate or collaborative work of other disciplines, especially psychology, anthropology, social psychology, architecture and urban planning. Research on housing has from its Post-World War II flowering been an interdisciplinary enterprise. And it continues to be …

Journal Of Sociology & Social Welfare Vol. 3, No. 2 (November 1975)

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Issue Editor - Dr. ELIZAJETH HUTTMAN, Dept. of Sociology, CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY – HAYWARD

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Introduction, pp 115
• Social Research On Housing in the United States: Direction and Themes - SHIRLEY S. ANGRIST, pp 117
• Relocation of Vancouver's Chinatown Residents Under Urban Renewal - RICHARD NAMM, pp 125
• New Towns and Social Welfare Prospects: 1975-2000 AD - ARTHUR B. SHOSTAK, pp 131
• Operational Problems of New Communities - CHESTER C. McGUIRE, pp 136
• Gemeinschaft vs. Gesellschaft in a Finnish New Town - STANLEY F. WISEMAN, pp 141
• Alternative Methods of Providing Services For the Elderly In Independent and …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 51, No. 15, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Caudill, Tom. Curfew Will End Oct. 31
• Ashcraft, Betsy. Residents Support Change
• Harris, Roger. Associated Student Government Budget Approved; Concerts Are Discussed
• Shirley, Janet. Futurist Author Advices Planning for the Future – Alvin Toffler
• Proposed Law May Decease Food Stamps
• Bi-Term to Begin
• Skees, Janet. Talisman Gets Top Honor for Second Straight Year
• Voters Should Have Chance to Say None of the Above
• Bruce, Don. There’s Profit in Egging on Greeks
• White, James. Criticizes William Jenkins
• Wise, Ronnie. Defends Sigma Chi Derby
• Marcum, Debra. Clarifies …

Review Of Applied Urban Research 1975, Vol. 03, No. 09, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

Publications

This issue of Review of Applied Urban Research features "Education in Nebraska: Fifth Annual Report."

This report represents a compilation of the most recent data made available by governmental and nongovernmental sources. The report contains information on a wide variety of subjects, including school enrollments, student withdrawals, status and plans of high school and university graduates, and degrees conferred by the University of Nebraska System as well as other Omaha Area colleges and universities.

The Work Orientations Of Social Work Recruits: A Study Of Pre-Professional Socialization, Lillian Rogers

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

In the past, sociological literature has focused on the effects of professional socialization and its influence in the development of work orientations and its conduciveness to homogeneity within a profession. The "process model" served as the conceptual framework for this thesis which proposes that professions are segmented. The present author considered the social work profession as being segmented and was concerned with possible factors which contributed to such segmentation.

The focus of this thesis is to explore the influence of various sociodemographic variables such as age, sex, social class, marital status and parenthood, in addition to work and educational experiences …

The Cedar Grove Community In Oral Folk History, Ada Parker

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The thesis was originally done for the Center for Intercultural & Folk Studies which no longer exists.

In The World But Not Of The World: A Church's Relation To Its Environment, James Earl Floyd

Student Work

Research in general and inductive research in particular often begins from an unfocused curiosity. From this perplexity, emerges the problem of research, the collecting of relevant data, and the drawing of theoretical inferences from said data. The current research enterprise includes these major problems but is, in many respects, different. That is to say, the execution is different from that which is found in "traditional patterns of investigation."

Alienation — In Marx And Modern Empirical Sociology, Isidor Wallimann

Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration

Inhalt: Die Arbeit nimmt die Diskussion zu Marx’ Konzept der Entfremdung wieder auf und kommt zu dem Ergebnis, daß zwischen den Ansichten des Jungen“ und des „alten“ Marx keine grundsätzlichen Unterschiede bestehen. Sie behauptet, daß Marx’ Konzept sich ausschließlich als objektive Definition verstehen läßt und es unter der Voraussetzung, daß dieses Konzept aufrechterhalten werden soll, unmöglich ist, in Entfremdung als solcher die Ursache jeweils bestimmter Verhaltensweisen, Erfahrungen, Einstellungen und Gefühle anzusetzen. Die genannten Schlußfolgerungen werden auch hinsichtlich des Marxschen Konzeptes des „wahren Bewußtseins“ geltend gemacht, wobei hier wie dort auf unangemessene, ja inkorrekte Übersetzungen von MARX hingewiesen wird. Die Arbeit …

Toward A Typology Of Riotous Behavior Studies: Relationships Between Conceptual Areas & Methodological Techniques In Sociological Research, Maryline Glover

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

A typology was developed to demonstrate the relationship between the diverse theoretical explanations prevalent in riotous behavior research and the mode of data collection utilized for studying these theoretical explanations. The two principal variables identified are conceptual areas and methodological techniques. Conceptual areas consist of five categories and these are defined as structure: underlying social. economic and political preconditions which lead to riotous behavior; belief-motives: underlying predispositions of individuals or groups which lead to riotous behavior; setting: immediate determinants (assemblage process. ecological arrangements and socio-demographic factors) which lead to riotous behavior; action-behavior: actual behavior patterns and general characteristics found in …

Role Exits Among The Aged, Nancy Whitelaw Mancini

Dissertations and Theses

The concept of role exit presented by Zena Smith Blau in her book, Old Age in a Changing Society, refers to the ongoing process of relinquishing previously enacted social roles; a process which is part of everyday life for men and women of all ages. However, Blau argues that role exits in later life are different from those in earlier stages of the life cycle because they tend to be terminal and involuntary. These factors, according to Blau, cause role exits in old age to negatively influence the individual's overall satisfaction with life.

This thesis examines the concept of …

Cockfighting: The Social Structure Of A Deviant Subculture, Gary Foster

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This thesis, being one of exploratory research initially because of a paucity of research of a professional and academic nature, examines cockfighting in its social entirety, focusing upon its social structure. The lack of such previous research on cockfighting necessitated the collection of data through primary as well as secondary sources. Thus, a combination of research methods was employed to facilitate the investigation. A combination of data collection strategies also proved necessary for the realization of the total research objective, that being the presentation of cockfighting as a complete social structure involving a history and tradition, the activity as a …