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Impact Of Life Stages And Career Stages On Employee Job Performance: A Review, Smita Chattopadhyay, Amit Gupta

Working Papers

A career is a life-long process, that includes the preparation for, and choice of an occuption. One's present job is just one of a sequence of work experiences encompassed by a career. It has often been seen that employees who occupy similar positions in an organizations may have completely different interests, goals and job expectations. Research in sociology, clinical psychology and vocational psychology suggests that people go through life stages and career stages that affect their job attitudes, work perceptions and performance.

Correlated Mortality Risks Of Siblings In Kenya: An Examination Of The Concept Of Death Clustering And A Model For Analysis, D. Walter Rasugu Omariba, Roderic Beaujot, Rajulton Fernando

PSC Discussion Papers Series

This paper uses the 1998 Kenya DHS to examine the correlation of mortality risks across siblings. Previously, the random-effect parameter in the random model has been interpreted in terms of unmeasured and unmeasurable factors, suggesting the presence of death clustering. This interpretation is problematic because the concept of unobserved heterogeneity is not the same as death clustering. This paper attempts to clarify the concept of death clustering and demonstrates that the concept needs to be closely associated, and therefore examined, with the sequence of births and deaths in a family. Earlier approaches have been insensitive to sequencing both in the …

Changing Childhood Mortality Conditions In Kenya: An Examination Of Levels, Trends And Determinants In The Late 1980s And The 1990s, D. Walter Rasugu Omariba

PSC Discussion Papers Series

This paper examines the observed reversal in childhood mortality conditions in Kenya since the late 1980s, and the determinants of child mortality. Data from the 1998 Demographic and Health Survey are used to achieve these two objectives. Direct estimation techniques are used to examine regional levels and trends of mortality since the 1980s. It is clear from these analyses that regional mortality levels in Kenya are quite diversified. Nyanza has the highest mortality among children, while Central has the lowest. Although, mortality increased in the country in the early 1990s, most of the increases occurred in Nyanza province. Weibull hazard …

Mis Startup For The Sociology Departmental Assessment Plan, Susan L. Caulfield

Assessment Grants

No abstract provided.

Income Poverty In Canada: Recent Trends Among Canadian Families 1981-2002, Don Kerr, Joseph Michalski

PSC Discussion Papers Series

Abstract not available

Military Communities: Families At Risk, Marlena Sue Mccormic, Kristine Diane Brown

Theses Digitization Project

This project examined whether there is a change in the rates of child abuse reported in communities with active military installations, specifically Fort Irwin in Barstow and Marine Corp Air Ground Command Center in the Morongo Valley, in comparison to a comparable non-military communities, during times of military conflict from October 2000 through October 2004.

Consent, Informal Organization, And Job Rewards: A Mixed Methods Analysis, Marty Laubach

Sociology and Anthropology Faculty Research

This study uses a mixed methods approach to workplace dynamics. Ethnographic observations show that the consent deal underlies an informal stratification that divides the workplace into an “informal periphery,” a “conventional core,” and an “administrative clan.” The “consent deal” is defined as an exchange of autonomy, voice, and schedule flexibility for intensified commitment, and is modeled as a single factor underlying these elements. When constructed as an additive scale, consent allows informal organization to be included in workplace models. Despite its derivation from subjective and informal processes, informal structure exerts an independent effect on objective job rewards such as wages.

Community Partnerships For Older Adults: A Case Study, Elise J. Bolda Phd, Jane I. Lowe, George L. Maddox, Beverly S. Patnaik

Faculty Publications

Over the past several decades, federal policy has made states and communities increasingly more responsible for providing long-term care for older adults. The Community Partnerships for Older Adults, a national program of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, saw this as an opportunity to explore new, sustainable ways to meet current and future needs for community-based long-term care. This initiative focuses on collaborative organizational partnerships, a distinctive philosophy of teaching and learning through the exchange of experience between communities, and program learning focusing on known factors promoting organizational sustainability. Using principles that emphasize the development of social capital and collective efficacy, …

Gender Differences In Coping: Implications For Depression And Crime, Amanda Howerton

Doctoral Dissertations

It is a common cultural belief that women employ emotion and passive focused coping methods more frequently than men. Likewise, most empirical evidence supports the idea that women are more likely to cope by modifying their emotional responses to stress, whereas males most often use and are more proficient with the problem solving approach (Billings and Moos 1984; Endler and Parker 1990; Milkie and Thoits 1993; Pearlin and Schooler 1978; Stone and Neale 1984). Despite considerable theoretical and empirical attention to these issues, there are still several gaps that remain in our understanding of the ways in which gender and …

Does Religion Matter? A Test Of Classical Theories Of Deviance On Two Different Religious Types, Jill Hume Harrison

Doctoral Dissertations

This study uniquely examines two religious types and a control group of nonreligious respondents in relation to two classical theories of crime and deviant behavior. The first objective of this research is to determine whether a conventional religion, Methodism, deters crime and deviant behavior better than an unconventional religious type, Shambhala Buddhism, and a control group of nonreligious respondents. The second objective of this research is to examine the predictive capacities of measures for Hirschi's (1969) social control theory and Sutherland's (1947) differential association theory. Constructs for these theories are used to determine the magnitude of mediating and moderating effects …

Indians And Immigrants: Survivance Stories Of Literacies, Joyce Rain Anderson

Doctoral Dissertations

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

This project stems from my mixedblood heritage and from a community of mixedblood scholars. In this text, I relate stories of the early colonization of Southern New England, of the zones of contact between whites (primarily English) and Indians (primarily Massachusett or Wampanoag). I offer perspectives on competing views of literacy and explored texts translated from Massachusett Algonquin to see how Indians used writing to enact rhetorics of survivance which challenged the prevailing assumptions of the dominant culture. Within these texts we see how Indians continued to define themselves in …

Coming Together Or Going It Alone: How Resource -Dependent Communities Survive In Newfoundland And Labrador, Barbara Moriarty Snowadzky

Doctoral Dissertations

Rural communities world wide struggle to maintain economic viability as their populations shrink from lower birth rates and outmigration. When such locales have been dependent on a declining natural resource base, the challenge to survive is even greater. In 1992 the Canadian government announced a moratorium on cod fishing in the Atlantic Maritime provinces, which resulted in an upheaval of economic, social and cultural ways that were centered on the cod fishery for centuries. This research examined the social, economic and political history of two clusters of communities caught up in the crisis---on coastal Labrador and on the Avalon Peninsula …

Faculty Perceptions Of The Effects Of Collective Bargaining Agreements On Their Professional Roles: The New England Public Higher Education Experience, Nancy J S Hamer

Doctoral Dissertations

This study, a combination of quantitative and artifact analysis, examined how New England public college and university faculty perceived their professional concerns were affected by working under a collective bargaining agreement. The professional concerns, derived from the pertinent literature, included the following: the ability of the faculty to effectively influence who joined the faculty ranks; their powers to determine the curriculum, with their related instructional practices/delivery systems, and the setting of degree requirements; determining their teaching, scholarship, and service requirements; assuring the exercise of academic freedom, and reasonable shared governance.

Coupled with these professional concerns were three research questions that …

Parenting In The Age Of Prozac: Parental Decision -Making In Social Context, Nena F. Stracuzzi

Doctoral Dissertations

Within recent years, prescriptions written for children's emotional and behavioral problems have increased significantly. Although this issue has garnered a great deal of public notice, it has received scant sociological attention. In this study, I investigate parents of children with problems, and those without, in an effort to gain insights into the social contexts that shape decisions around diagnoses and treatment. The bases of the theoretical underpinnings of this research are situated at the intersection of medicalization and mother-blame.

Survey data were collected from 235 parents in a single New Hampshire community. Respondents answered several open-ended questions on the questionnaire …

Discovering Democracy: Grassroots Organizations And Strategies Of Mobilization, Adrian Chevraux-Fitzhugh

Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects

In order to create change, it is imperative that grassroots movements and organizations adopt effective mobilization strategies. This thesis will provide a model for how Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County (DUHC) mobilizes citizens to action in a rural community. It will be argued that many of the mobilization strategies employed by DUHC can be applied by other grassroots organization across a variety of issues. Although DUHC is focused on undermining corporate power and the legitimacy of corporate personhood, their mobilization strategies can be a useful tool for very different types of organizations. Part of the DUHC mobilization model will include …

Social Change In The Emperor System, Keiko Mori

Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects

The Emperors in Japan were considered as gods for the Japanese people until World War II ended. The Japanese worshiped the Emperors and obeyed whatever the orders were given in the Emperor’s name. However, under the Occupation of the Allied Powers led by General Douglas MacArthur, Emperor Hirohito’s role changed from ‘divine ruler’ to the ‘state symbol’ of Japan, He was not supposed to have any political power over the Japanese people, but his influence was still huge after the defeat. General MacArthur supported the Emperor system in Japan because the General believed, without Hirohito, Japan could not survive the …

Gender Differences In Political Engagement Among The Youth, Sonia Dalmia, Silda Nikaj

Seidman Business Review

The issue of gender differences in voting behavior and policy attitudes has been a recurrent theme in social science literature and political commentary in the United States. In presidential and many congressional elections, for instance, women have been observed to disproportionately support Democratic candidates, compared to men. The size of this gender gap has often been bigger than the margin of victory for Democratic candidates in congressional as well as in the 1992 and 1996 presidential races. As a result, appeals designed to attract female voters have become widespread (Manza and Brooks, 1998).

A Critique Of The Urban Mission Of The Church In The Light Of An Emerging Postmodern Condition, Kleber De Oliveira Goncalves

Dissertations

The world is becoming an urban society. The urban expansion witnessed during the twentieth century and continuing into the twenty-first century is unprecedented in the history of the human civilization. Simultaneously, the Western world faces the paradigm shift from the modern era to a postmodern condition. Both movements have remarkable implications for the mission of the church in urbanized, postmodernizing societies. Shaped by the modern worldview, the church is now further ostracized by the postmodern condition.

While the literature of urban mission has grown in the past few years, very little consideration has been given to the particular issues and …

Utilizing Principles Of Transformative Mediation In The Development Of The Redwood Regional Watershed Center, Paula Fitzgerald Yoon

Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects

In the twenty first century, mediation and watershed management are each paradigm-shifting tools for our globalized society. Mediation is the process that creates a structure allowing parties in conflict to resolve their own differences. Transformative mediation is a form of mediation that has the capacity to transform the character of both individual disputants and society as a whole. This project applies transformative mediation as a process to promote the growth of watershed management and restoration. Transformative mediation was used by a non-profit organization, the Redwood Regional Watershed Center (RRWC), to bring all parties together to work on education, interpretation and …

Revisiting Outcrits With A Sociological Imagination, Mary Romero

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.

Zapatismo And Autonomous Social Movements: Reading The Communiqés Politically, Jordan Camp

Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects

This study examines the Ejército Zapatista Liberación Nacional (EZLN) and Zapatista base communities contributions to an autonomous “revolutionary” theory and practice. The focus of this thesis is the evolution of Zapatismo as elaborated in the Zapatistas’ communiqués following the EZLN’s deceleration of war against the Mexican government on January 1, 1994, the same day that the North American Free Trade Agreement between the United States, Canada, and Mexico went into effect. This thesis investigates the Zapatistas’ communiqués as part of an effort to more fully engage their strategies of self-representation and articulation of a collective subject in which any number …

The Nation-State And The Transnational Capitalist Class In The Era Of Global Accumulation, Jeffery Robert Gunn

Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects

This thesis represents a critical comparative and historical study of the challenges posed to the autonomy and sovereignty of the nation-state by the emerging transnational class structure in the current era of global accumulation. I examine key elements of modern state theory, contrasting them with class-based state theory. National models may be extended to help illustrate transnational relationships. Transnational institutions, components of the transnational state apparatus, serve as examples of the means by which this transnational capitalist class formulates and implements policy. But this transnational structure is not stable; it suffers from the very contradictions immanent to capitalism itself. I …

The Equip Model And The New Horizons Program, Yi-Lang Chao

Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects

The New Horizon Program mainly offers services to juveniles to correct their deviant behaviors and cognitive distortions, including substance abuse assessment and counseling, anger management, medication support, individual and group counseling, mental health counseling, and social skill development training. The EQUIP model is the main element in the in-custody service of the New Horizons Program. We already know that the EQUIP program (1996 in Ohio State) was effective; however, after being implemented in Humboldt County, does the EQUIP model still can provide the New Horizons Program positive functions and assistance? CAFAS and YSR were adopted as indicators to measure intermediate …

Learning For Life: The Social And Academic Outcomes Of A Waldorf Education, Adriane S. Mozzini

Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects

Waldorf schools are nationally and internationally federated institutions that provide kindergarten through twelfth grade educations. Created in Germany in 1919 during the Progressive Education Movement and existing in the United States since 1928, Waldorf schools use a true unit study approach integrating the arts into all areas of academic study, yet eschewing some of the standard facets of American education, such as standardized testing, most subject matter testing (in grades K-8), competition for grades, ability grouping and academic tracking, and the use of electronic technology (in grades K-8). Currently, 149 private Waldorf and 44 Waldorf-methods public charter schools serve over …

The Working And Living Conditions Of Migrant Farm Workers, Hilario Molina Ii

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

The purpose of this thesis was to explore the world of migrant workers, through first hand account, through the description of the living and working conditions of migrant farms by focusing on each camp (A, B, and C), by observing and describing the line of work, by discussing the social and cultural dynamics of migrant farm working—the role and culture of the migrant women, children, and alpha males—and by documenting the exploitation of migrant farm workers. This is a qualitative research, based on ground theory, which consisted of participant observation of these factors. There was no hypothesis due to the …

Sociology 3204 Course Proposal 10/07/2004, Curriculum Committee

Curriculum Committee Reports

No abstract provided.

Sociology Form B: Discipline Objectives And Requirements 09/20/2004, Curriculum Committee

Curriculum Committee Reports

No abstract provided.

Sociology Form A: Discipline Summary 09/20/2004, Curriculum Committee

Curriculum Committee Reports

No abstract provided.

Sociology Multiple Course Revisions 09/20/2004, Curriculum Committee

Curriculum Committee Reports

No abstract provided.

This Land Is Our Land: Immigrants And Power In Miami, Jimy M. Sanders

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.