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The Pattern Of Religious Institution In The Northwest Urban Fringe Of Omaha, Nebraska, 1968, Grace R. Gardner

Student Work

Most writers attempt, at the outset, to define the subject of their discourse. To be certain of capturing the essence of an idea or concept, they will turn to renowned scholars and practitioners in the field and derive a composite of a wide array of views and approaches to the problem. Such an attempt In the field of religion reveals so many definitions and such variance between them, that it is soon apparent no simple definition will suffice. Is it intellectual acceptance of an idea, ideal, or code of ethics which binds men together philosophically, or is it formal membership …

Cohesiveness And Aging: An Empirical Test, Judy Kessler

Student Work

Relationships between persons are the strands out of which society is fashioned. An understanding of the macro-world of social behavior must be firmly grounded in an understanding of the relationships between persons in small, face-to-face groups as they define their immediate social world. Relatively little research has been undertaken to describe and evaluate the social life of particular persons. Up to the present, socio‐logists have tended to investigate large scale societal and institutional patterns or small group processes usually under artificial conditions. Analysis of immediate social systems as they influence persons day by day has been neglected. Williams (1968) suggests …

An Input Output Study For The Omaha Smsa, J. D. Stolen, P. C. Chang

Publications

This study is an extension and refinement of a previous report on the Omaha Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area (SMSA) by Perry P. Chang. The present study makes three major changes in Chang's report, in that it obtains output and value added of industries in the Omaha area, exports and imports of the industries, certain income multipliers, forecasts of output in the Omaha area. for 1975 and 1990, and compares the three results with Chang's.

Forced Resettlement And Attitude Change: A Study Of Cognitive Dissonance, Vincent Joel Webb

Student Work

The United States during the 20th century has been characterized by an ever increasing amount of Federal responsibility and intervention in effecting change in the lives of the local citizenery. This Federal intervention and responsibility takes many varied forms; it is the aim of this research to deal with only one of these forms - the Civil Works Program of the United States Army Corps of Engineers as it relates to water resources development.

Middle And Working-Class Fathers' Occupational Expectations And Aspirations For Their Daughters, William H. Bieck

Student Work

Sociological research in the areas of occupational preference and mobility, together with related work in the sociology of education has been concerned almost entirely with males. An all but exclusive preoccupation with the male worker is somewhat surprising considering the fact that census data reveal, an increasing proportion of women in paid employment during the last sixty years.¹ An examination of labor statistics by Bossi,² disclosed that between 1950 and I960, women accounted for 65 per cent of the increase in the labor force. By 1965, according to Davis³, approximately one paid worker in three was …

A Sociological Consideration Of Pretense, John F. Else

Student Work

Few, if any, persons pass through a day without observing and engaging in some form of pretense. Pretense is a basic aspect of interpersonal relations. In an office or factory the supervisor tells the worker to ’’look busy" even when he does not have work to do. The salesman tries to make the customer feel as if the item being presented is the best buy ever placed on the market. Two people meet and exchange “PIeased to meet you!" when neither actually cares at all about the presence of the other; in fact, each may have negative feelings about meeting …

Protestantism And Anomia: A Social Psychological Study, Joel Charles Snell

Student Work

According to Emile Durkheim, the French sociologist, religion promotes group cohesion. ”The idea of society," he noted, "is the soul of religion."... Not only does religion bind man with his fellow man, but Durkheim also emphasizes that religious participation provides meaning and psychological stability to the individual’s existence.

Social Class And Parental Discipline, Marianne P. Hanson

Student Work

Whether one is a social scientist, natural scientist, humanist or layman, he views the world about him from a certain perspective. The perspective each hold will lead to different questions regarding the same phenomena. Attempting and completing empirical research, however, involves more than asking questions. Our research situation indicates that a hypothetical prediction is being tested. The hypothetical prediction is derived from a theoretical perspective. Theory provides the researcher with "logically interconnected sets of propositions from which empirical uniformities can be derived.” The testing of hypotheses derived from the propositions is not an isolated endeavor for testing constantly refers back …

The Social Quest In John Updike's Major Fiction., Patricia E. Lucas

Student Work

The choice of subject matter for this thesis has, in part at least, been prompted by the uproar caused by the publication of the Couples by John Updike in 1968. Re-viewers could not make up their collective minds about the book-whether it was exceedingly filthy and obscene because of the inclusion of irrelevant explicitness in dealing with the sexual interrelations of the couples involved, the true story of Updike and his Ipswich, Massachusetts friends, or a comment on contemporary life which is indicative of the sociological directions of middle class man. A minority of the reviewers, however, did appear to …

General Academic Catalog (1969-1970), University Of Nebraska At Omaha

Graduate Catalogs

The general catalog for the academic years 1969-1970.

A Study Of The Teen Girl's Reactions To National Service, Seventeen

School K-12

This study was designed to probe the reactions of teenage girls to National Service -- a program enabling young people to serve their country in such non-military ways as nursing, teaching and working in rural and big city slums.

The questionnaire covered:
Reactions to National Service
- as a voluntary program
- as a compulsory program
If and when teen girls would participate in such a program
Opinions on National Service for men as a substitute or an addition to regular military service

Kabul Times (February 23, 1969, Vol. 7, No. 278), Bakhtar News Agency

Kabul Times

Kabul Times is an English language newspaper, published daily, except Fridays and Afghan holidays. First issue was published on February 27, 1962)

Interlude Programs In U.S. Undergraduate Education, Terrence Cullinan

Higher Education

A survey was undertaken in the spring of 1969, as part of the Interlude Research Program, to (a) determine the attitudes of U.S. undergraduate institutions towards incorporation of formal off-campus experiences (academic interludes) as part of their educational program; (b) learn something about the current extent of ongoing interlude programs; (c) indicate some of the parameters of the ongoing programs; and (d) discover how some of those concerned with ongoing programs on individual campuses rate their own programs. The survey, based on responses to a questionnaire sent to as many four-year undergraduate (college and university) institutions as could be identified, …

Teaching Communication Skills In The Context Of The World Of Work: A Pilot Project, Barbara L. Brilhart

Publications

The survey of projects was initiated by Miss Kessler, who located sources pertaining to work-orientation in the junior high school, remedial programs for drop-outs, and programs in which language skills were taught in the context of teaching units and courses in occupations. A form was mailed to various cities to obtain curricula and reports on projects.

During the summer of 1968, the author read 200 articles, curricula and project reports in an effort to gain insights into objectives, activities and evaluations of work-orientation programs. The result of this survey will be reported in three sections: (1) concepts of work-orientation; (2) …

Aging Group Consciousness And Cohesion: Some Empirical Considerations, Judy Kessler, Nancy C. Wilson

Publications

This is the third and final evaluation of a recreation program sponsored by the Omaha Parks, Recreation and Public Property Department in public housing facilities for the elderly. John A. Ballweg (1967) conducted the first evaluation and the second was conducted by Judy Kessler and George W. Barger with the assistance of Nancy C. Wilson (1968). Major questions to be considered here are:

1. What is the extent of participation in the recreation program among the residents?

2. Have patterns of social relationships changed since the subjects moved into public housing?

3. What types of friendship groups have developed within …

Omaha Trade Area Study No. 06: License Plate Survey Of Five Major Shopping Points, Charles R. Gildersleeve, Roger E. Corbin

Publications

This is the third of a series of continuing studies in the attempt to ascertain Omaha's retail trade area. The method utilized, as in the past, is that of recording license plate prefix numbers at the three major and two minor shopping points within the Omaha SMSA. Emphasis is placed upon the three major shopping points, Downtown, Crossroads and Westroads, for they are the best indicators of the regional focus of Omaha. The two other points surveyed were Southroads and Downtown Council Bluffs (See Map 13, Page 5). This year the survey eliminated The Center, GEM and Skagway because of …

Cohesiveness And Aging: An Empirical Test, Judy Kessler

Publications

Relationships between persons are the strands out of which society is fashioned, An understanding of the macro-world of social behavior must be firmly grounded in an understanding of the relationships between persons in small face-to-face groups as they define their immediate social world.

Relatively little research has been undertaken to describe and evaluate the social life of particular persons, Up to the present, sociologists have tended to investigate large scale societal and institutional patterns or small group processes usually under artificial conditions, Analysis of immediate social systems as they influence persons day by day has been neglected, Williams (1968) suggests …

Graduate Academic Catalog (June 1969 - June 1970), University Of Nebraska At Omaha

Graduate Catalogs

Bulletin of the Graduate College, June 1969 - June 1970.

An Analysis Of The United Community Services, Omaha, Nebraska, Betty W. Carter

Student Work

This research proposed to analyze the United Community Services of Omaha, Nebraska. The aim was to explain how the organization functioned, its focal points of tension and conflict and its adaptability to change. Both informal relationships and formal relationships prescribed by the United Community Services Constitution were analyzed. The effect of external and internal pressures on the United Community Services were examined, as well as the responses of the organization to those pressures.

The Manpower And Related Agencies Of Omaha: A Pilot Study Of Their Functions And Interconnections, Barbara L. Brilhart, Judy Kessler

Publications

In the past few years the University of Nebraska at Omaha has become increasingly committed to the study and alleviation of urban problems, Involvement of faculty, administration, and students in the life of the community and the demand for courses in urban affairs have stimulated an awareness of the need for an organized and rapid method of information retrieval in relation to the Omaha metropolitan area,

Kabul Times (November 24, 1968, Vol. 7, No. 203), Bakhtar News Agency

Kabul Times

Kabul Times is an English language newspaper, published daily, except Fridays and Afghan holidays. First issue was published on February 27, 1962)

Kabul Times (November 3, 1968, Vol. 7, No. 186), Bakhtar News Agency

Kabul Times

Kabul Times is an English language newspaper, published daily, except Fridays and Afghan holidays. First issue was published on February 27, 1962)

A Study Of The Trope, Glenn Starnes Lindsey

Student Work

In order to study the beginning of drama one must understand the context or the womb from which the play was born. It is usually accepted that drama in the West, as in most civilizations, developed from the popular religion. In medieval Europe, drama sprang from the Catholic Church— an institution which had, centuries before, suppressed the drama of Roman culture. The purpose of this study is not to ask the question of "What happened?" but "Why did it happen?" That is, why did drama develop in the midst of an anti-drama Christian Church? Any study done of early European …

Kabul Times (September 14, 1968, Vol. 7, No. 144), Bakhtar News Agency

Kabul Times

Kabul Times is an English language newspaper, published daily, except Fridays and Afghan holidays. First issue was published on February 27, 1962)

Kabul Times (September 5, 1968, Vol. 7, No. 138), Bakhtar News Agency

Kabul Times

Kabul Times is an English language newspaper, published daily, except Fridays and Afghan holidays. First issue was published on February 27, 1962)

Kabul Times (July 29, 1968, Vol. 7, No. 109), Bakhtar News Agency

Kabul Times

Kabul Times is an English language newspaper, published daily, except Fridays and Afghan holidays. First issue was published on February 27, 1962)

Kabul Times (July 17, 1968, Vol. 7, No. 99), Bakhtar News Agency

Kabul Times

Kabul Times is an English language newspaper, published daily, except Fridays and Afghan holidays. First issue was published on February 27, 1962)

An Input-Output Study For The Omaha Smsa, 1963: A Provisional Report, Perry P. Chang

Publications

The present report aims to show the procedures and findings of an input-output study for the Omaha Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area (SMSA). This study is based on national technical co-efficients and some simplifying assumptions, with 1963 as the base year. While it is provisional in the sense that this study may be improved through the use of additional data and relaxation of certain assumptions, this report will show some interesting aspects of the area's economy and trends of its development. In the meantime, it may also reveal some of the economic problems, challenges, and opportunities which exist in the Omaha …

The Power Structure Of Council Bluffs, Iowa: A Methodological And Descriptive Analysis, Roger L. Pearson

Student Work

The study of community power structure by scholars from a number of academic areas, in recent years has been fraught with controversy with respect to theory, research methods and substantive findings. This area of dispute has been particularly marked among those representing the fields of sociology and political science, with those two fields generally having represented polemical positions on a number of points concerning the structure of power in communities and how it should be studied, especially with respect to how holders of power might best be identified.

General Academic Catalog (1968-1969), University Of Nebraska At Omaha

Undergraduate Catalogs

The general catalog for the academic years 1968-1969.