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Wife Battering: A Theoretical Model And Treatment Approaches, Joan Woods

Masters Theses

The purpose of the present thesis is to provide a theoretical framework to deepen understanding of the dynamics which lead to wife battering behavior and to illuminate its original causes and the process maintaining it.

Learning principles explicated by three learning based theories are utilized as premises to explain the process the batterer engages in which produces his violent behavior. Some existing sociological theories of wife abuse and family violence serve as bases for some of the antecedent variables postulated in the model presented. Other cognitive-perceptual and emotional intervening variables are postulated to explain the process of wife battering behavior. …

Needs Assessments For Technical Assistance: A Conceptual Overview And Comparison Of Three Strategies, Tanya M. Suarez

Dissertations

Technical assistance agencies designed to provide assistance to social programs and projects which have been created by legislation are a relatively recent organizational phenomenon in the United States.

Western News, November 20, 1980, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Teaching Japanese to Japanese kids in Battle Creek, No faculty or staff layoffs; Bernhard declares, Telephone books include WATS guidelines, Maier publishes two books on noted father, Obie Byrd, custodian, dies

Western News, November 13, 1980, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: 'Partners in Progress' has 45 percent of goal, Announce major gifts from Upjohn; Ford, campus, College of Business a major focus of campaign, Coyne; Russell urge United Way giving

Western News, November 6, 1980, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Football team to seek share of MAC title Saturday, Weisberg; Homer elected officers of Foundation, Walk -in period set for short-term loans, Paper Tech Foundation selects Kettering, Patron's Choice Series adds 10 attractions

The Westerner Vol. 1 No. 4, Western Michigan University

The Westerner (1980-1997)

• Goal is $6.8 million: First capital campaign announced; $3.1 million already secured • Major gifts received from Upjohn, Ford and campus • Proposal D defeated in Nov. 4 election • Faculty Scholar Award recipients named • Stine and Upjohn to receive University Distinguished Service awards • Kettering heads Paper Tech group • Teaching Excellence Award winners named • People • Profile • Among Alumni • Alumnotes • Sports

Journal Of Sociology & Social Welfare Vol. 7, No. 6 (November 1980)

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Table of Contents

• Values Classification through Science Fiction - Phyllis J. Day
• Multiple Constituencies, Differential Power, and the Question of Effectiveness in Human Service Organizations - Patricia Yancey Martin
• The Influence of Bureaucratic Factors on Welfare Policy Implementation - Gerard S. Gryski, Charles L. Usher
• Human Service Needs in Rapidly Growing Western Communities: The Wyoming House Services Project - One Response - Julie M. Uhlmann, John W. Hanks,
• A Comparison of Social Psychological Views among Youthful and Aged Persons: An Empirical Assessment or Marginally Differentiated Attitude Measures - Dennis L. Peck, David L. Klemmack
• Factors Influencing Senate Voting Patterns on …

Multiple Constituencies, Differential Power, And The Question Of Effectiveness In Human Service Organizations, Patricia Yancey Martin

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

A multiple constituencies model of human service organizations identifies twelve interest groups which must be considered when effectiveness questions are raised. The differential power of the interest groups suggests that some groups' preferences are likely to be emphasized over others. The relationship between power inside the organization and that on the outside is analyzed. Recent trends in the growth andmiiitancy of professional associations and employee groups suggest that internal control by senior administrators is increasingly challenged and variable. Future studies of effectiveness in the human services are encouraged to remain sensitive to the effects of constituency interests and power on …

The Influence Of Bureaucratic Factors On Welfare Policy Implementation, Gerard S. Gryski, Charles L. Usher

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The authors argue that previous welfare policy research has suffered from its neglect of bureaucratic factors, as well as a tendency to exclude policy-making arenas above and below the state level. Using several measures of organizational structure, administrative professionalism, and within-state need, they attempt to relate these variables to within-state variations in welfare policy implementation. While certain socio-economic conditions were found to be significant determinants of this variation, of greater importance are characteristics of state welfare bureaucracies such as the degree of administrative centralization and the level of professionalism of administrative staff. Their research suggests the need for further refinement …

Western News, October 23, 1980, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Information meeting set for 6 p.m. on Proposal D, Teaching Excellence Awards given to five faculty, Reward of $1,000 offered by University in murder, Lina Marshall on 'Good Morning America' Friday: 'First day I've missed classes, Ehrle sets improvement of academic life as mission

Western News, October 2, 1980, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Recommended if Proposal D passes No state aid for Western!, WMU couldn't survive under Proposal D-Bernhard, She may be oldest sorority pledge in the country, Three tax proposals to be discussed in program tonight in Knauss Hall, King; queen named; Homecoming parade Saturday, Program set for fall Academic Convocation, Instructional Development offering many workshops for faculty members this fall

Factors Associated With Teacher Knowledge Of Reading At The Secondary Level, Harbans Lal Narang

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Though widespread use is made of non print media to enrich and supplement teaching, most academic learning takes place through the study of printed materials. The secondary school relies heavily on textbooks for its daily work in the classroom. Secondary teachers are, therefore, expected to teach reading skills in their particular content areas. Most colleges and universities offer one or more classes in reading instruction for teachers in training. Bader (1975) indicates that more and more institutions in the United States are requiring prospective secondary teachers to take at least one course in reading as a part of their certification …

Western News, September 25, 1980, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Homecoming starts with king; queen contest Sunday, Tax proposals to be discussed next week, Ann Reynolds; Ohio State provost; to head meeting, First three of 12 visiting scholars here today, Hospice author to speak Tuesday at local church, Bernhard points up achievement to Board, Symposium on future of NCAA; AlAW, Rep. Ryan presented with PA certificate

Western News, September 11, 1980, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Somali administrators on one-month visit here, George Bush to speak Sept. 18, 'Fragile stability' for public higher ed -report, Here's a summary of campus events during spring; summer sessions, Fleischhacker named acting chair in theatre, Zupko work to be performed at Kennedy, Conference on women researchers to be Sept. 27

Western News, September 4, 1980, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: $4.5 million in energy costs avoided in program, Senate to meet tonight in Trimpe, It's been a very wet June, July and August here, 75-year history of the University by Leo Stine published this summer, Mission statement to help chart future course of the University, Wolpe; Gilmore speak this month, Computer Center to offer free workshops

The Westerner Vol. 1 No. 3, Western Michigan University

The Westerner (1980-1997)

• Summer commencement: For 1,800 graduates, it was a very big day • An open letter from President Bernhard: Proposal D: 'Devastating ... for higher education' in Michigan • Financial crisis 'imminent, of indefinite duration' –Bernhard • Dickason awarded Fulbright grant • Costs avoided by energy management • Good news: Enrollment up slightly • Distinguished Alumni Awards presented at summer commencement • 75-year history of the University published by New Issues Press • Mission Statement: 'Touchstone for all other planning activities at University' • Among Alumni • Alumnotes • People • Sports

Careers Of Women Civil Rights Activists, Rhoda Lois Blumberg

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Stages in the civil rights careers of a sample of women active in northern communities were studied. Committed to racial justice, most intensified their participation in the early 1960's. In the second half of the decade, the "Black Power" phase, roles for whites became fewer. Organizations experienced changes in membership and direction; factionalism ensued. Many, women welcomed black leadership and played roles in new black-lead community agencies. Arrests of blacks allegedly involved in riots elicited support in the formation of defense committees and prison reform organizations. Later, many women entered human service professions; they chose jobs with poor, minority or …

The Effects Of Alternative Diffusion Channels And Alternative Organizational Positions Of Receivers Of Diffusion Information Upon Receiver Understanding And Practitioner Utilization Of An Educational Innovation, Howard T. Major

Dissertations

This study investigated selected effects of diffusing an educational innovation via one of two diffusion channels, either print or dyadic exchange, to one of two organizational positions of the receivers of diffusion information, either the building principal or the building media professional. The selected effects included a cognitive effect and a behavioral effect. The cognitive effect consisted of receivers' understanding of the innovation and the principles of its effective utilization. This understanding of the innovation was measured with a 10-item instrument developed for this study. The behavioral effect consisted of an actual utilization of the innovation by individuals in the …

Creating Deviance: The Collective Stigmatization Of Cigarette Smoking, Ronald Jay Troyer

Dissertations

This study focused on the changing norms regarding cigarette smoking. Banned by a number of states in the early 1930s, the behavior was socially and legally accepted during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s only to once again become the object of public approbation and official sanctions in the 1970s. Examining events in both time periods, this research attempted to determine how and why this behavior came to be defined as deviant.

In explaining the negative public attitudes toward and official restrictions of the habit some commentators had cited the medical evidence that smoking has deleterious health consequences while others had …

Relationship Of Educational Values And Attitudes Toward "Double Sessions" In A Rural Community, Patrick Clayton Harrington

Dissertations

The Purpose. The purpose of the study was to examine a community currently experiencing a double-sessions school organization. The citizens, students, graduates, and staff of the Yale School District, Yale, Michigan, were surveyed to determine their attitudes toward double sessions and their opinions on selected educational values. The data were examined to determine if there was a direct relationship between the opinions held on these selected values and agreement-disagreement with double sessions and to determine differences among participants regarding their opinions.

An additional purpose was to determine if there were any differences among eligible voters regarding their attitudes toward eliminating …

The Development And Use Of A Film On Public Art In The City Of Kalamazoo, Michigan, For The Purpose Of Building Community, Sesta V. Peekstok

Dissertations

The goals of this study were: (a) to produce and test the impact of a film on public art in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and (b) to demonstrate through development and use of a film on public art how public art can contribute to the building of community.

A survey of public art in the United States suggests that people's commitment to their community can be influenced by their relationship with the public art in the community. In 1965 Congress created the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities. Stimulated by that support over the past 15 years, works of art, funded …

Architectural Design, Neighboring, And Victimization In Group Housing: An Examination Of Relationships, Kathleen Anne Tiemann

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Citizen Perceptions Of Various Police Behaviors: A Conceptual Framework And Practical Recommendations For Improvement, H. Preston Elrod

Masters Theses

The ability of the police to better assess their role in the community lies in understanding, or-accurately perceiving, the public's attitudes toward various police behaviors. Although numerous studies have examined general attitudes toward the police, few have examined citizen attitudes toward specific police behaviors within a broad socio-historical framework and attempted to make practical recommendations to the police based on such findings. This is the intent of this study.

The findings of this study are based on a random sample of households in Kalamazoo, Michigan, during 1978 and employs both bivariate and multivariate statistical techniques. Generally, it was found that …

Administrative Preparedness: Perceptions Of Problems And Qualifications, William Joseph Banach

Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to provide information which will stimulate a forecasting of educational problems and encourage a review of administrative training programs.

The purpose of the study was operationalized through three objectives: (1) to determine whether incongruencies existed between qualifications administrators perceived themselves having and educational problems they identified; (2) to investigate whether administrators and the public perceived the same educational problems; and, (3) to determine if the training needs administrators expressed were related to the educational problems they identified.

The study focused on administrative perceptions of problems and qualifications for the periods 1978-79, 1979-80 and 1980-85. …

A Proper Attitude Toward Science, William W. Cobern

Scientific Literacy and Cultural Studies Project

The attitude of a man determine his speech and actions. That is why it is more important for children to leave school with positives attitudes about learning than with acquired and refined skills and knowledge. A child in school may learn to read but unless he also gains a positive attitude about reading he will not read on his own. So it is with science. Along with the acquisition of the skills and knowledge of science should come a positive attitude about science. Furthermore in the field of science as well as a positive one. This is the subject at …

Ecological Systems Theory In Social Work, Max Siporin

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Ecological systems theory is explicated as a current form of successive systems models used in social work. Behavior principles assumptive in this model are identified: of exchange balance, inner consistency, and dialectial change. Several misconceptions of ecological systems theory and a cultist aspect of its current popularity are addressed. Advantages, including the emergence of practice principles derived from this model, as well as its limitations are then discussed. The charge that systems theory helps maintain the status quo and the use of systems theory by radical proponents of system change are considered in terms of the dual function of social …

Nonviolent Agencies In The Northern Ireland Struggle: 1968-1979, Alfred Mcclung Lee

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The Northern Ireland struggle has enlisted or given birth to a great many social welfare organizations allegedly dedicated to the nonviolent solution of the area’s problems. These consist principally of three types: (1) agencies of religious denominations or groups of denominations, (2) voluntary social work, demonstration, and protest societies, and (3) political actionist bodies. Those of the first two types face the pitfalls of the ready middleclass recourse to conscience-soothing rituals and to compromise at the expense of lowerclass and ethnic outgroup interests. Those of the third type include ones that are effective, but some tend to fall into lowerclass …

Western News, June 12, 1980, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: 'Introduction to Gravure Printing' course is first in Midwest, Ruth Boot dies after long illness, Bernhard goes to UNESCO conference, New broadcast news coordinator named, Library topics recommended by Senate, Rape suspect arraigned in Kalamazoo, Clinical education meeting is tomorrow, Panel will discuss 'Breast Surgery', Memorial will honor Robert D. Hughes

Partners In Progress: Faculty Recognition Dinner 1980, Western Michigan University

Faculty Recognition

Partners in Progress

Faculty Recognition Dinner

June 7, 1980

Honored Guests:

• Elsa Alvarez
• Irene S. Bibza
• Lawrence J. Brink
• Mercedes Cardenas
• James H. Griggs
• Joseph T. Hoy
• Wilda Large
• Dominic Leonardelli
• Carl A. Lindstrom
• John H. McBeth
• Josephine Nicolette
• Leon D. Nobes
• Leonard Orr
• Frank Robinson
• Vera Jean Russell
• Charles A. Smith

Western News, June 5, 1980, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: WMU logo makes debut in university publications; letterheads, Faculty member accidentally drowned, Parking violators have until June 25, New motor transport rates announced, Mary Brown to address Senate, Six women athletes earn all A grades