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Incest: A Study In Networking In Multnomah County, Oregon, Joanne Mcclarty

Dissertations and Theses

Reported cases of incest in Multnomah County, Oregon, as in the rest of the country, are increasing yearly. Effective networking between agencies is important in order to successfully work with the problem. The research problem of this study was to determine the effectiveness of the present network of agencies working with incest in Multnomah County. In order to evaluate network effectiveness the following objectives were established: to provide a "cultural" description of the major components of the Multnomah County network; to determine whether a common definition of incest among practitioners exists and to compare the networking system in this county …

Summary Of Report On Economic Growth Through Cooperation Among Lower Columbia River Ports; Report On Economic Development Coordination, City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.

Portland State Perspective; Summer 1984, Portland State University

Portland State Perspective

A quarterly alumni newsletter. In this issue: PSU enhances Asian Studies offerings; an interview with Dr. James Manning; and PGE President wants to raise expectations for PSU

Local Norms Of Personality Assessment For Rosebud Sioux, Richard H. Dana, Rodger Hornby, Tom Hoffmann

Regional Research Institute for Human Services

Measures of life stress, locus of control, world view, and values were administered to 91 Rosebud Sioux. The results provide some limited norms for local use of these measures and descriptive data for this tribe. These measures provide examples of culturally relevant, non-discriminatory instruments for assessment of Native Americans

You Don't Have To Have A High School Education To Work Here : An Ethnography Of A Chainstore, Caroline Yvonne Princehouse

Dissertations and Theses

This ethnography is a study of the cultural scene at one store of a chain of twenty-eight retail "discount department stores"--the Bi Mart Company, a subsidiary of the Pay 'n Save Corporation. It is an exercise of an ethnographic method developed by James Spradley that is used to uncover and describe the cultural grammar of acquired knowledge which Bi Mart employees use to define and interpret their situation and to generate and understand their work. The method is based on the assumption that culture is best learned and best described (as much as possible) from the "native" point of view.

Portland State Perspective; Fall/Winter 1984, Portland State University

Portland State Perspective

A quarterly alumni newsletter. In this issue: an interview with Bud Clark, Portland's mayor-elect; and an interview with Alice Stewart, M.D. a British epidemiologist.

Intelligence Testing Of American Indian Children: Sidesteps In Quest Of Ethical Practice, Richard H. Dana

Regional Research Institute for Human Services

Previous literature reviews are updated. Recent findings impugn the WISC-R internal consistency and document item bias for American Indian children. A pattern of Spatial > Sequential > Conceptual > Acquired Knowledge holds across ages, tribes, and heterogeneous referral sources, except for acculturated children. Kaufman's three factors are replaced by Verbal and Performance factors for Papago and Navajo children. A culturally-learned basis for intellectual functioning among traditional children supports alternative assessment functions for traditional reservation lifestyle and for acculturation and entree into mainstream society. Performance measures, SOMPA, Piagetian and Luria-derived tasks may ultimately provide less biased intelligence estimates. Recent legislation outlines ethical practice although …

Faculty Senate Monthly Packet December 1983, Portland State University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Monthly Packets

The December 1983 Monthly packet includes the December agenda and appendices and the Faculty Senate minutes and attachments from the meeting held November 1983.

Faculty Senate Monthly Packet November 1983, Portland State University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Monthly Packets

The November 1983 Monthly packet includes the November agenda and appendices and the Faculty Senate minutes and attachments from the meeting held October 1983.

1983 Commencement Program, Commencement

Commencement Archives 1980-89

The program for the Portland State University 1983 Spring Commencement ceremony, held at Memorial Coliseum on June 12, 1983, in Portland, Oregon.

Opening statement by Gary Miranda, Poet-in-Residence, Reed College; opening remarks by Louis B. Perry, Oregon State System of Higher Education, and Mary Christine Bailey, Class of 1983.

An Internal Review Of A Discipline: Journal Editors' Opinions Of Paradigm Development Within Speech Communication, Laurie A. Houghton

Dissertations and Theses

A review of the literature on paradigm development within academic fields revealed that researchers have drawn distinctions between disciplines with greater paradigm development (discussed as discipline-wide consensus) and disciplines with lesser paradigm development. Several of these investigations centered on paradigm development and evaluative criteria used by academic journal editors for judging scholarly work. The purpose of this study was to ascertain Speech Communication journal editors' opinions of paradigm development within their field.

A two-part survey was developed and mailed to eleven editors of the major Speech Communication journals. Data generated from the survey were analyzed using a descriptive methodology. Part …

The Introduction Of European And Asian Cultural Materials On The Alaskan And Northwest Coasts Before 1800, Herbert Kyle Beals

Dissertations and Theses

This thesis concerns the introduction of exogenous cultural materials among the native inhabitants of the Alaskan and Northwest coasts prior to the and of the 18th century. It is an investigation of the sources of these materials and the manner and chronology of their introduction. The research is based primarily on data drawn from accounts of native life by explorers and fur traders who visited the coasts of northwestern North America in the 18th century. These accounts are supplemented by ethnologic and archaeologic data collected by anthropologists in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Portland State Perspective; Winter 1983, Portland State University

Portland State Perspective

A quarterly alumni newsletter. In this issue: a report on PSU's Center for Urban Studies impact on the city's growth; an interview with Nancy Edwards, a PSU alumn bringing business and social services together; and small businesses get PSU's help

Toward A Phenomenological-Based Perspective Of Acculturation With Application To Scottish Immigrants, Dorothy M. Sermol

Dissertations and Theses

This thesis is an attempt to construct a perspective of the acculturation of immigrants drawing on certain communication- based phenomenological assumptions. From these phenomenological assumptions a Framework of Acculturation is constructed as a guide through which to examine the acculturation process. The Framework of Acculturation is then applied to the particular group of Scottish immigrants who live in the Northwest of the United States.

Tillamook Indian Basketry : Continuity And Change As Seen In The Adams Collection, Ailsa Elizabeth Crawford

Dissertations and Theses

In the Adams Collection at the Tillamook County Pioneer Museum, Tillamook, Oregon, there are 29 baskets that were probably made between 1880 and 1940. They are mostly of raffia, are somewhat faded from their original, bright, commercial colors, and are generally quite small. Despite the fact that these baskets are well-documented and were made by Tillamook women, they are the sort that have been overlooked by anthropologists and by collectors because of their non-"traditional" appearance. In order to determine what relationship these baskets have to Tillamook basketry made earlier, I analyzed them and 39 Tillamook baskets from four other museum …

The Relationship Between Romanes And English As Spoken By The Portland Gypsies, Margaret Anne Sharp

Dissertations and Theses

This thesis examines the relationship between English and Romanes as spoken by the Portland Kalderash Rom (Gypsies). Examples, taken from natural conversations which were taped, translated, and analyzed, show that the intermixing follows rules which guard the linguistic integrity of both languages. Code changing, code mixing, linguistic natural setting. A lexicon of Romanes words, elicited from members of the Gypsy community, is also included. The findings of this study support the thesis that this intermixing of Romanes and English is adaptive in that it insures that all members of the community can speak both languages from an early age.

City Club Of Portland Bulletin Vol. 63, No. 21 (1982-10-22), City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.

Rain, Eco-Net

RAIN: Journal of Appropriate Technology

Volume 8, Number 10

Inside: William Appleman Williams on Regional Destiny; Scuttling the Law of the Sea; The Future is Abundant

RAIN began in October 1974 as a publication of ECO-NET, an environmental education network funded by the Hill Foundation and an Environmental Education grant. Its office was based in the Environmental Education Center at Portland State University. With a focus on the Pacific Northwest, particularly Oregon, RAIN originally described itself as a “bulletin board” with an “emphasis on environmental/energy related and communications kinds of information” and interested in “the evolutionary possibilities of inter-disciplinary connections.”

Log Structures: Criteria For Their Description, Evaluation And Management As Cultural Resources, Margaret L. Glover

Dissertations and Theses

This thesis discusses mining cabin sites from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as cultural resources. Special attention is given the concept of "description" in regards to discussion of the resource category, history, and physical attributes of the sites. Evaluation and management suggestions are presented for this particular resource category. To aid in the process of identification of log cabin notching, a typology of notches is developed and presented within the context of the thesis.

1982 Commencement Program, William Stafford

Commencement Archives 1980-89

The program for the Portland State University 1982 Spring Commencement ceremony, held at Memorial Coliseum on June 13, 1982, in Portland, Oregon.

Opening statement by William Stafford, Poet Laureate of Oregon.

Faculty Senate Monthly Packet June 1982, Portland State University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Monthly Packets

The June 1982 Monthly packet includes the June agenda and appendices and the Faculty Senate minutes and attachments from the meeting held May 1982.

Faculty Senate Monthly Packet May 1982, Portland State University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Monthly Packets

The May 1982 Monthly packet includes the May agenda and appendices and the Faculty Senate minutes and attachments from the meeting held April 1982.

Portland State Perspective; Spring 1982, Portland State University

Portland State Perspective

A quarterly alumni newsletter. In this issue: antibiotics research; Diplomat in Residence; class at Oregon State Penitentiary; chimpanzee research; alumni survey results.

Spatial Expressions Of Traditional Behavior: An Ethnoarchaeological Study, E. Kofi Agorsah

Black Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations

This report summarizes research undertaken in the settlement of Wiae in the KeteKrachi district of the Volta Region in Ghana, West Africa. It concerns an attempt to use current spatial behavior within the residential area of the modern village to predict spatial behavior at the prehistoric sites.

Developing A Test Of Communicative Competence For English As A Second Language Students At The College Level, Kristen Kern

Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of the research was to develop a test of oral communicative competence for English as a Second Language (ESL) students at the college level.

This research first reviewed the current literature on the topic of communicative competence from the perspectives of linguistics and sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, and speech communication. The 1iterature on testing for communicative competence within the ESL and foreign language teaching fields was also reviewed. A 7-minute oral semi-direct taped test was then developed and administered to a trial group of 5 ESL students and a final group of 25 ESL students at Portland State University. …

Faculty Senate Monthly Packet January 1982, Portland State University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Monthly Packets

The January 1982 Monthly packet includes the January agenda and appendices and the Faculty Senate minutes and attachments from the meeting held December 1981.

Toward A Measure Of Correspondence In Relational Perceptions In Marital Dyads, Deborah Anne Coker

Dissertations and Theses

In order to assess a component of communication in interpersonal relationships, an instrument was developed to determine the correspondence in relational perceptions between partners in a marital dyad. The current study focuses on the levels of awareness spouses exhibit regarding phenomenological perceptions of themselves, their partners and the status of their dyadic system.

Proverbs : Tools For World View Studies : An Exploratory Comparison Of The Bemba Of Zambia And The Shona Of Zimbabwe, Larry L. Niemeyer

Dissertations and Theses

The proverbs of people - defined by Webster as short sayings "in common use expressing a well-known truth or common fact ascertained by experience or observation" - have been an object of study to many kinds of people for many decades. Robert R. Marett has said that proverbs are a key to both the language and culture of a people. But, knowledge of the language and culture of a people, in itself, cannot be satisfying to the discerning anthropologist. An effort must be made to identify and understand the categories of thought, codes and symbols that undergird their language and …

Post-Mazama Aboriginal Settlement/Subsistence Patterns : Upper Klamath Basin, Oregon, Frances Marie Philipek

Dissertations and Theses

A study was conducted in the Upper Klamath Basin, south-central Oregon, to test Luther s. Cressman' s hypothesis characterizing prehistoric Klamath Basin culture as having, from an early date, a marsh/riverine subsistence focus with long-term stability and a slow rate of internal change emphasizing intensification of the existing marsh/riverine utilization pattern. A subsistence/ settlement pattern model was developed to predict aboriginal site occurrence in the upper Klamath Basin.

A Study Of The Effects Of Active Participation In Instruction Upon Learning, Jerry D. Pratton

Dissertations and Theses

An experimental study of the effects of active participation on student learning was conducted with two levels of treatment of the independent variable. Intact groups were used because it was reasoned that results generated in classroom settings would likely be more generalizable to other classroom settings. The study was conducted in a medium-sized suburban school district mainly residential in character. Five project teachers were trained to teach a lesson on simple probability. Each teacher taught four lessons to fifth grade classes, two with Treatment I (active student participation) and two with Treatment II (no active student participation). The lessons were …