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Urban Squatting: An Adaptive Response To The Housing Crisis, Rimma Ashkinadze

Honors Papers

From introduction: Urban squatting is the unauthorized occupation of empty buildings. Squatting is usually thought to be a Third World phenomenon associated with urbanization, poverty, and rural-urban migration. However, there is a history of squatting in the US and Europe as well. Squatting has been reported in New York, San Francisco, Newark, Boston, Philadelphia, Detroit, and Los Angeles. Since World War II and particularly in the last thirty years, urban squatting has received much attention in Europe. The major European centers for squatting have been London, Amsterdam, and Berlin.' In Britain, the squatting of buildings scheduled for renovation or demolition …

Making "Music At The Margins"? A Social And Cultural Analysis Of Xinyao In Singapore, Lily Kong

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Formalist critics and aestheticians have argued that music does not possess any kind of "extra-musical" significance, that there is no meaning beyond the form and structural relations of the notes. For them, music exemplifies the laws of mathematical harmony and proportion rather than the social and political contexts within which it is produced, reproduced and consumed. This view has been challenged by a number of social theorists: Max Weber, Theodor Adorno and Edward Said have all argued for an understanding of music within its social, cultural, economic and political contexts. Such analysis of popular music is now unquestioned. Indeed, it …

The Causes And Consequences Of Interactions Between Aboriginal And Non-Aboriginal Primary School Children From The Perspective Of Their Parents, Catherine M. Brennan

Theses : Honours

Racism is found in all societies but is a particular problem in post-colonial immigrant majority societies where the indigenous population have been dispossessed of their land and experience social injustices. Aboriginal people are the most disadvantaged group in Australian society and despite the current policies of self-determination and cultural pluralism they remain at the bottom of all social indicators. The aim of this study is to examine the causes and consequences of racism against Aboriginal children from the perspective of their parents. To do this a case-study of seven Aboriginal parents with primary school aged children was undertaken to see …

Joan Huber, Irving Louis Horowitz, And The Ideological Future Of Objectivity In American Sociology, Michael R. Hill

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

The occasion of this essay is an unsolicited but welcome invitation to comment on Irving Louis Horowitz's (1993) most recent book, The Decomposition of Sociology, a work that is generating considerable discussion (e.g., Bauer Mengelberg 1995; Chriss 1994; Goldman 1994; Horowitz 1994, 1995; Pizzorno 1994; Wagner 1994). An invitation to discuss a book by Horowitz in a public forum-to which he is invited to respond-is a genuine honor eagerly accepted here with what is undoubtedly a too small twinge of apprehension, a twinge of the minimally regarded kind that allows proverbial fools to rush into intellectual tight spots from which …

Expressive Individualism In A Midwestern Situated Youth Subculture Group, Jeffrey Michael Webb

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

In a Midwestern city of, according to the 1990 census, 34,000 people (97% "white"), fifty all Caucasian, mostly middle class, predominantly high school, youth subculture group members (32 males; 18 females) were qualitatively studied in public places. I utilized participant observation, intensive interviews, field notes, color photographs, diary entrees, and electronic mail to gather data on why these particular young people appeared and behaved in manners different from their peers and the larger culture. Such difference centered on hair color, nonmainstream body piercing, tattoos, baggy clothing, pranking behavior known as "garfinkeling," and some psychedelic drug use. The design of the …

The Aftermath Of Teenage Childbearing : The Characteristics Of Successful Adjustment, Sarjo Sanneh Patrick

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

This exploratory qualitative study provides a description of how. and an understanding of why a subset of teenage mothers go on to attain higher educational and economic success, thus becoming self-supponing in their adult lives. A standardized pre-structured interview was conducted with IO Caucasian women aged 21 to 56 who had had their first children at or below age 19. Participation in the study was voluntary. A conceptual framework was advanced suggesting how social control theory was able to explain the processes involved in the anamment of later-life academic and economic success among early childbearers. The women confirmed that strong …

Characteristics Of Batterers Convicted Of Domestic Abuse In The Batterers’ Education Reform, Jacquelyn E. Powell

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The information obtained from this study will give an indication as to whether the abusers in this area share common characteristics of the abuser. By identifying these characteristics, it may be possible to target individuals prone to practice abusive behavior, and possibly interrupt the cycle by intervening with education and prevention strategies to combat the problem.

The purpose of this study was to ascertain selected characteristics of males convicted of domestic abuse in the Black Hawk County's Batterers' Education Program. The study was to identify selected characteristics of participants court-ordered to attend the Batterers' Education Program. The study investigated demographical …

Regaining Our Youth, Empowering Our Communities: Service Learning And Community Development, Glenn D. Israel, Thomas W. Ilvento

Journal of Rural Social Sciences

This paper describes a development process which builds upon the strengths of community service learning and community development by providing teenagers a chance to get involved in the community while providing a valuable service leading to local action. The strategy focuses on building partnerships among students, teachers, and local leaders to learn about community leadership, conduct a community needs assessment survey, and address a local need through a community development process. Experience from projects in Florida and Kentucky suggests that this strategy can help youth get involved in the community while providing a sounder basis for the community to act …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 71, No. 28, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Becker, Lori. Students Adopting Kids for Christmas – Potter Children’s Home
• Scott, Mike. Paul Patton Calls on Regent for Help – Fred Mudge
• Root, Tonya. They Are So Good At What They Do – Ron Holmes, Serial Killers
• Dial-A-Grade Soon to be Available – Registrar
• Extra Shuttle Hours Discontinued
• Mammoth Cave Site of Singing – Concerts
• Curtis, Stacy. Editorial Cartoon re: Thomas Meredith’s Christmas Presents
• Santa Claus Stops at Western
• Gagliardi, Melissa. Life Fine with No Television
• Curtis, Stacy. Editorial Cartoon re: Flag Burning
• Watkins, …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 71, No. 7, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Hall, Jason. Students Spruce Up Holiday Traditions
• Root, Tonya. Ticket Taker Problem Solved
• Wright, Jennifer. AmeriCorps: It’s a Chance to Learn & Earn – Amanda Smith
• Senior Released from Hospital – Mekisha Page
• Council on Higher Education to Ask State for $4 Million
• Lega, Stephen. Christmas Time of Religious Celebration
• Curtis, Stacy. Editorial Cartoon re: Thomas Meredith Conflict of Interest
• Thomas Meredith Should Resign from Atmos Energy Corporation
• Curtis, Stacy. Directory Most Diverse Publication on Campus
• Weigel, Richard. Earl Fischer Has Board Conflict of Interest …

Paca Annual Meeting December 2, 1995

Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials

Minutes for the President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts annual meeting held December 2, 1995 at the Park Hyatt Hotel Ballroom, Washington, D.C. at 2:30pm. Box: The Kennedy Center General Correspondence 1995-2001 News Clippings Folder: General Correspondence 1995-96

State Terrorism In The Arab-Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Social Constructionism And The Question Of Power, Amani Michael Awwad

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Proposition 48 And Proposition 42 In The Ncaa: A Social Constructionist Case Study, Kevin R. Cole

Masters Theses

The controversy surrounding the creation and implementation of two National Collegiate Athletic Association student-athlete eligibility rules, Proposition 48 and Proposition 42, was the focus of this study. The two rules required that a student's scholastic grade point average and SAT scores be factored into scholarship and athletic admissions decisions. By describing the unfolding social process respecting the creation of these two eligibility rules, this study addressed issues vital to rule creating processes in general.

The social constructionist perspective was utilized as a theoretical guide for this study, allowing for the examination of claims makers and their social claims regarding the …

Playing With Qualitative Research: Designing A Research Project With Diamonds And Venns, Annalynn Schooley

The Qualitative Report

No abstract provided.

An Examination Of The Assimilation Process Of Japanese Americans Living In Michigan, Junko Onuma

Masters Theses

Japanese Americans are regarded as one of model minority groups recently in American society. Through the war experience, the Japanese Americans are likely to become upper middle class people and to assimilate into the Caucasian groups.

The purpose of this research is to investigate Japanese method to assimilate into American society. The research focuses on the Michigan area as a particular area of Japanese American assimilation process. The interview research was conducted with 14 people who live in Michigan. These people are classified into the three groups to distinguish differences, historical, and social factors on assimilation. Consequently, Japanese Americans living …

Loneliness: Do Living Arrangements Make A Difference?, Judith N. Moore

Masters Theses

This study is an exploratory secondary analysis of loneliness experienced as a serious problem by the elderly. The secondary data were from the Davis (1986) national study conducted by Harris & Associates (1987) for the Commonwealth Fund Commission on Elderly People Living Alone. The independent demographic variables of living arrangements (living alone or living with others), age (65 to 85 and over), marital status (married, widowed, divorced, separated, and never married) and sex by the dependent variable of loneliness (a serious problem or not a serious problem) were measured by chi-squares and Cramer's V test for statistical significance. Results indicated …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 71, No. 26, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Goetz, Kristina. Thomas Meredith’s Seat on Board of Atmos Energy Corporation Questioned
• Hannah, Jim. Student Arrested for Rape – William Curtis
• Lenz, Rebecca. AIDS: Day Recognizes Victims of Disease – World AIDS Day
• Root, Tonya. Senior Hospitalized After Being Struck by Car – Mekisha Page
• Santa Claus to Light Up Bowling Green
• Hall, Jason. President Bill Clinton Sending Troops to Bosnia
• Goetz, Kristina. Kentucky May Stand Firm on Highway Speeds
• Curtis, Stacy. Editorial Cartoon re: Bosnian War
• U.S. Troops Needed in Bosnia
• Curtis, Stacy. Students …

The L-Word : November 1, 1995, The L-Word

The L-Word

No abstract provided.

A Study Of Community Interaction, Ernst W. Stromsdorfer, Grant Forsyth, Richard Oxley

Partnerships/Community

This study analyses selected aspects of the community impact of the Kitsap Community Action Program projects entitled ''The Public Awareness of Kitsap" (PACK). PACK was initiated as a response to a downsizing of Department of Defense activities in Kitsap County. With PACK, the Kitsap Community Action Program (KCAP) joined hands with the Washington Service Corps in an effort funded by the Defense Conversion Assistance program to revitalize the local Bremerton and Kitsap County economies.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 71, No. 16, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Scott, Mike. Manager Leaving Landscape Legacy – Claude Threlkeld
• Hannah, Jim. Balloons Give Lift to Alcohol Awarenes Week
• Davis, Courtney. Breast Cancer: Not Just Mother or Grandmother’s Disease
• Scholarship to Honor Todd Gibbs
• Libraries to Have Used Book Sale
• LaBelle, Charbonee. Domestic Violence March Set for Saturday in Nashville
• Weaver, Ron. Editorial Cartoon re: Domestic Violence
• Don’t be a Domestic Violence Victim
• Simmons, Darryn. Young Generation Needs to be Involved in Media
• Brown, Mark. Remember the Last Women’s Studies Conference
• Curtis, Stacy. Editorial Cartoon re: …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 71, No. 15, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Becker, Lori. Robert Haynes: It’s Time to Turn the Reins Over
• Gagliardi, Melissa & Kevin Kelly. Mariah’s Owner to Try to Salvage City Landmark
• Distinguished Alumni Chosen – Alva Clutts, Ray Franklin, Harry Gray, Gary Lacefield, Terry Wilcutt
• Topline Demonstration Today – Registrar
• Weaver, Ron. Editorial Cartoon re: Farewell Robert Haynes
• Robert Haynes Leaves Legacy of Improvements
• Gagliardi, Melissa. Music Brings Back Memories of Childhood
• Brown, Karen. Don’t Miss Million Man March Message, Support Black Men
• Curtis, Stacy. Editorial Cartoon re: Million Man March
• Nevens, …

Democratic Participation In A Community Of Learners: Loris Malaguzzi's Philosophy Of Education As Relationship , Carolyn P. Edwards

Department of Child, Youth, and Family Studies: Faculty Publications

We consider relationships to be the fundamental, organizing strategy of our educational system. -- Loris Malaguzzi, 1993, p. 10.

The metaphor of education as relationship provided Loris Malaguzzi with the fundamental premise for his philosophy and pedagogy. The child--seen as powerful, rich in resources, competent, and social--seeks from the beginning of life to find out about the self, others, and the world through interaction: knowledge is co-constructed. Education, hence, must focus not on the child considered in isolation from others, but instead on the child seen as interconnected with particular others in nested communities: home, classroom, school, neighborhood, city, region, …

Ua12/2/1 Looking Back, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

Special homecoming edition of the College Heights Herald. This issue contains articles:

• Morris, Linda. Bonfire, Parade Created Homecoming Hype
• McKinney, Greg. First Black Student Regent Reflects on Year of Service
• LaBelle, Charbonee. Student Government Association Finds Itself Facing Decade-Old Problems
• Mami, Alfina. Associated Student Government Reaches Tenth Anniversary
• Harris, Roger. Campus Radio Station Makes Contemporary Debut – WKYU-FM
• Collins, Don. The Agony & the Ecstasy – Football
• Henderson, Ray. 1975 Season One Former Hilltopper Will Never Forget – Football
• Goetz, Kristina. Greeks Celebrating Birthdays – Sigma Nu, Phi Mu, Phi Delta Theta, Alpha Delta Pi, Delta Sigma Theta
• Quarles, …

Scientists And Animal Research: Dr. Jekyll Or Mr. Hyde?, Andrew N. Rowan

Experimentation Collection

Why is the public so sensitive about the use of a few tens of millions of animals in research when they do not object to killing hundreds of millions of pigs and cows and billions of chickens for our meat diet? Why is animal research considered so bad despite the public's high opinion of science (and scientists)? Perhaps it is the image of the scientist as an objective and cold individual who deliberately inflicts harm (pain, distress, or death) on his (the public image is usually male) innocent animal victims that arouses so much horror and concern. This paper does …

Catalog, 1995-1996, Anderson University - South Carolina

Catalogs

The 1995-1996 academic catalog and introduction to the college.

Writing The Ties That Bind: Service-Learning In The Writing Classroom, David D. Cooper, Laura Julier

Higher Education

Recognizing, as John Dewey observed, that democracy begins in conversation, the Service-Learning Writing Project views the writing classroom as a place where rhetorical processes and democratic practices naturally converge. Informed by complementary disciplinary conversations in public culture studies and composition research, the project's interdisciplinary curriculum and pedagogical methods seek to shape habits of heart and mind that advance the development of critical discourse skills, the refinement of civic sensibility, and the promotion of students' ethical responsibility for the public good.

Language, Culture, And Violence In The Education Crisis Of U.S. Latino/ As: Two Courses For Intervention, Frances R. Aparicio, Christina Jose-Kampfner

Diversity

This article discusses the educational crisis of U.S. Latina/as and argues for the recognition and understanding of the extent to which institutional racism and violence are exercised by schools against this cultural sector. It then describes, as forms of intervention, a course which trainsfuture Spanish teachers in developing Latino cultural competence, and a community service learning course which offers tutoring and emotional support to at-risk middle school students.

Spinning Interdisciplinary Service-Learning Webs: A Secondary Education Approach, Susan M. Falcone, Barbara D. Law, Ellen R. Hayes, Ava L. Mendelson, David A. Patterson

Guides

Springboards: The ideas presented are not meant to be comprehensive. Placing this much information on one page restrains the number of ideas that can be given. They are meant to spark creative minds. Each teacher knows his/her students, community. and curriculum best.

Making connections: Each and every curricular area does not need to participate for successful interdisciplinary learning to occur.

Choosing your action: We have presented an example of each type of action: (direct, indirect, and advocacy). Only one type of action is required to make this a service-learning project along with preparation and reflection

All School activities: When reading …

The Invention Of "African Rhythm", Kofi Agawu

Publications and Research

"African ryhthm" was invented in the 1950s when, thanks to pioneering research by the Reverend A. M. Jones, Alan Merriam, Gilbert Rouget, Erich von Hornbostel, and John Blacking, among others, "African music" was construed as an essentially rhythmic phenomenon. Three decades and a sizable body of empirical research later, it is easy to see that an overriding ideology of difference (between "Africa" and the "West") motivated these early efforts. This essay reinvents "African rhythm" not by denying its own ideological construction but by engaging in an imaginary dialogue with earlier researchers in an effort to concretize that which was missing …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 71, No. 10, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Becker, Lori. Regents Pass Code of Conduct Despite Objections
• Goetz, Kristina. Board of Regents Combines Positions – Affirmative Action, Americans with Disabilities Act
• Root, Tonya. Thomas Meredith Receives Pay Raise
• Morris, Linda. Policy Restricts Skating on Campus – Rollerblading
• Library Sponsors Workshops – Electronic Research, Internet
• Weaver, Ron. Editorial Cartoon re: Moving to a New Level
• Attend Moving to a New Level Forums, Give Input
• Tungate, Matthew. Society Becoming Too Offensive Being Politically Correct
• Curtis, Stacy. Editorial Cartoon re: Unibomber, Journalism
• Steinkamp, Amy. Support Circle …