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The Raising And Feeding Of Red Meat Animals In The U.S. Since 1945: A Case Study Comparing Marxist Crisis Theories, Scott Hunt

Student Work

Political economists have traditionally treated capitalist crisis as a central theoretical focus. Starting with Marx and Engels, Marxian political economists have viewed crisis as a necessary result of ordinary capitalist economic life. Recent Marxist scholars have argued that capitalist crisis is a predominant feature of contemporary capitalism... Non-Marxian political economists have also emphasized crisis in their work. Given the focus on crisis in political economy, and its particular prominence in Marxian theory, the current project centers around that theme. The objective is to systematically evaluate two competing Marxist theories of crisis, contrasting the "Fundamentalist" approach and its emphasis on the …

Judging The Jury, Eric M. Acker

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Judging the Jury by Valerie P. Hans and Neil Vidmar

Distributive Justice: A Social-Psychological Perspective By Morton Deutsch, Barry N. Markovsky

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Estimation Of Demographic Parameters For India., S. Guha Roy Dr.

Doctoral Theses

There has been a peralstent empliasis both at the na tional and international levela on the developmont and application of techniques of estimation of demographio variablos from incomplete or inagcurute data in Coneietont wi th the theme of reuoaroh, the the lesu developed rogiona. present study tries to provide estimates of vital rates and prospective population trends in India and to form a basis for measuri.ng suoh hunan neede as vducation, employment, f'anily weltare,and few others in terms of population size,growth, ago s truature and nuptiality. The other major objectivu is to undertake furthor utilization of data generated by tihe …

Relative Sex Role Gratification: Egalitarianism And Fertility Decisions, Beatrice Emily Chapman

Digitized Theses

This research investigated the importance of the degree of egalitarianism in the sex role relationship between husband and wife for the outcome of their fertility decisions. Fertility decisions are viewed as the outcome of the social psychological exchange processes of give-and-take and sharing between husband and wife. The essential quality of their exchanges is symbolized by the degree of egalitarianism, interpersonal influence, power and conflict occurring in the marital role relationship. Egalitarianism is defined as a more equal sharing of responsibilities and privileges between spouses. The outcomes of the couple's fertility decisions are defined and measured by the expected completed …

Demographic Models Of Age At First Marriage And First Birth: An Application To Canadian Data, Kamarsu Vaninadha Rao

Digitized Theses

This thesis examines various mathematical models suitable for the analysis of event histories. The models discussed include Coale-McNeil model, Cox's model, and parametric failure time models. All these models are applied to data on age at first marriage and first birth, obtained from the Canadian Fertility Survey of 1984. The extended Coale-McNeil model to incorporate covariates has been examined. The covariates considered are place of residence, education, work, first birth status, and religion. The results of the model indicate that fewer young Canadian women are expected to marry compared to the older ones. The application of the Coale-McNeil model to …

Review Essay: Lynette R. Muir, Literature And Society In Medieval France: The Mirror And The Image, 1100-1500, Frede Jensen

Quidditas

Lynette R. Muir, Literature and Society in Medieval France: The Mirror and the Image, 1100-1500, St. Martin's Press, 1985.

Higher Education And Life Chances: A Study Of Occupational Attainments And Attitudes Among Some Public University Graduates, Richard Peter Talbot

Doctoral Dissertations

This study investigates the post-graduate educational and occupational experiences of the 1968 and 1978 graduates of a state flagship university. First, it explores the influence of parental variables upon respondents' choice of curriculum and of post-graduate study. Second, it examines the occupational placement of the respondents by cohort and by gender. Third, it explores the present attitudes of the respondents by cohort and gender.

A stratified random sampling of the graduates (N = 433) via a mailed survey questionnaire shows that more men than women in the 1968 cohort return their forms. There is the suspicion that only those who …

The Influence Of Kin Support And Parental Attitudes On The Care Of Deinstitutionalized Developmentally-Disabled Children, Susan Carol Herrick

Doctoral Dissertations

Are there characteristics of the handicapped child and/or his family which correlate with parents' perceptions of positive kin support? How does kin support affect the child's placement outcomes? How does the child's locus in the historical context of the deinstitutionalization movement influence his/her communitization?

To answer these questions, 93 families whose children were residents at Laconia State School and Training Center for mentally retarded people in New Hampshire were engaged in face-to-face interviews between 1984 and 1985. Each parent was read a list of possible resource groups (family, friends, neighbors, co-workers, other parents, clergy, doctors, and "others") and asked how …

A Comparison Of Attitudes And Goals Of Eligible Students : Joiners Versus Non-Joiners, Sharon L. Sawdo

Honors Capstones

An excerpt from the 1986-87 Northern Illinois University Honors Program Handbook states the philosophy of the NIU Honors Program. The philosophy suggests that the program is directed toward highly capable students with inquiring minds who wish to work independently on projects of their own design and who value the ability to interact with faculty in creating these independent projects. In past years, however, the Honors staff and faculty have questioned whether the philosophy they promote is in agreement with the philosophy of the highly capable students with whom they work. Are students with “high intellectual potential and demonstrated ability” interested …

Occupational Assimilation Of Asian Americans, 1980., Gloria Luz Rodriguez Martinez

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study was designed to examine the existence of differential returns to social and demographic characteristics on occupational status among whites and Asian American males aged 25-64 years old. The human capital, assimilation and segmented labor market theories of occupational attainment provided framework for investigating the occupational differentials of each of the six major groups of Asian Americans with whites. Using data drawn from the one-percent sample of the 1980 census, Public Use Microdata Samples (PUMS), it was found that Asian Americans are economically assimilated. Findings attesting to this fact are as follows: first, the occupational distribution of the Asian …

Belief Systems And Illness Experiences: The Case Of Non-Medical Healing Groups, Meredith B. Mcguire, D. J. Kantor

Sociology & Anthropology Faculty Research

An important, and often neglected, aspect of the illness experience is meaning—that is, how affected persons make sense of their experiences. Responses to illness, coping strategies, and the healing process itself are all shaped by the meanings people apply to their illnesses. This chapter examines some of the nonmedical approaches to illness used by middle-class suburbanites in order to highlight the importance of meaning in all illness experiences. The particular interpretations applied in these alter-. native healing systems vary, but the way these interpretive frameworks shape the illness experience sheds light on the broader significance of meaning in health, …

His Or Hers The Dichotomy Of Urban And Rural Dominant Kinship Networks: A Functional Explanation, Mark Wm. Timmons

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Taking Kawashima Seriously: A Review Of Japanese Research On Japanese Legal Consciousness And Disputing Behavior, Setsuo Miyazawa

Faculty Scholarship

This paper discusses Japanese research on legal consciousness (ho-ishiki) and civil disputing. The author presents a recent explication of Takeyoshi Kawashima's concept of legal consciousness as a cultural factor and also proposes to explore the possibility of treating it as an individual, attitudinal factor. He also reviews large-scale surveys of aggregate-level culture and studies on individual-level disputing behavior. The need and possibility of a longitudinal study of individual disputing behavior that uses individual-level attitudes and regional culture as explanatory variables is suggested.

Communication And Culture, Charles Veenstra

Pro Rege

No abstract provided.

Person-Environment Interaction Psychological Strain And Delinquency: A Longitudinal Test Of The Theory, Mahmood Gazi-Tabatabaie

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Utilizing longitudinal panel data from Youth In Transition Project, the Person-Environment fit (P-E Fit) theory and its specific application to the area of delinquency and aggression was investigated longitudinally. Analysis of Covariance Structure Technique (LISREL) was used to address the issues of multi-dimensionality, stability, measurement of total P-E fit and to test the proposed delinquency model. The relationships between P-E fit, psychological strain, and delinquency were tested both cross-sectionally and longitudinally. The student sub-group (those respondents who stayed in school after high school) and the working sub-group (those who went to work after high school) were tested separately. P-E fit …

A Capacity To Punish: The Ecology Of Crime And Punishment, Samuel M. Hill

Michigan Law Review

A Review of A Capacity to Punish: The Ecology of Crime and Punishment by Henry N. Pontell

Romanticism And The Rise Of Sociological Hermeneutics, Dmitri N. Shalin

Sociology Faculty Research

Although biblical exegesis and rhetoric, from which modern hermeneutics derived its first principles, are ancient arts, an effort to establish hermeneutics as a universal science, and especially to extend its principles to the science of society, is of a decidedly recent origin. "There is little doubt," states Gouldner, "that hermeneutics' roots in the modern era are traceable to Romanticism." Why is this so, what makes romanticism fertile ground for hermeneutical speculations? Hans-Georg Gadamer, a leading authority on hermeneutics, makes this intriguing suggestion about its origins:

The hermeneutical problem only emerges clearly when there is no powerful tradition present to absorb …

The Demographic Modeling Of Household Cycles: Analytical And Microsimulation Approaches, Ashok Kumar Madan

Digitized Theses

This dissertation first identifies the household cycle as the core concept in formal household demography, and presents a simple model of the determinants of the size distribution and the average size of the household. In this model, the proximate processes which govern the end points of the household cycle are fission, fusion, and fission-fusion of households and the joint mortality of household members. The growth of the household during its cycle is, on the other hand, influenced by events occurring to individual household members given that the household is viable. Analytical models then can be developed for the study of …

The Effects Of Curriculum Tracking On Women's Occupational Outcomes: A Test Of The Correspondence Principle., Leroy Allen Furr

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

In recent years, Marxist theories have challenged the traditional, meritocratic perspective dominant in the sociology of education. The meritocracy assumes that schools, like the larger society, are based on the premise of equal opportunity; success in school is the result of hard work and good grades, which lead to good jobs and good incomes. Bowles and Gintis, among other revisionists, disagree arguing that the structure of education, sorting students into segregated, hierarchical curriculum tracks, mirrors the structure of the capitalist workplace and reproduces the existing class system such that the most advantaged persons and groups continue to fare well while …

The Effect Of Parental Aggression On Children's Cognitive Development, Susan Elizabeth Craig

Doctoral Dissertations

The study investigated the relationship between parental aggression and children's cognitive development. Parental aggression was studied in terms of both verbal aggression and use of physical force. Indexes developed from form N of the Conflict Tactics Scales (Straus, 1979) were used to measure both variables at three levels: low, middle and high. The dependent variables were measures of the child's (A) cognitive style, (B) cognitive functioning and (C) self-esteem.

Previous research indicates a relationship between abuse and cognitive development: Ackly (1977), Elmer (1967), Martin (1979). A methodological limitation of these studies is that they used samples of children previously identified …

Parents Who Don't Spank: Deviation In The Legitimation Of Physical Force (Violence, Childrearing, Discipline), Barbara Ann Carson

Doctoral Dissertations

This study investigates why some parents deviate from American norms on childrearing and decide to use no form of physical punishment. Based on the percentage of American parents who use physical punishment, the views of popular childrearing manuals, relevant laws and court cases it is concluded that the use of physical punishment of children in American society is a context where the use of physical force is legitimate.

To locate non-spanking parents, questionnaires were distributed to parents of all first, second and third graders in a eastern seacoast town of approximately 27,000 people. Of those who returned the questionnaires, 87% …

Drug-Related Homicide In Dade County (Miami), Florida; 1978-1980., James Francis Quinn

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study examines the characteristics of all homicide victims in Miami, Florida between 1978 and 1980 (N = 1186). Data was collected from the Medical Examiner's office and local law enforcement agencies. The study relates the distribution of various aspects of homicidal situations to one another and to behavioral, cultural, and structural groupings of victims. Special attention is given to levels of drug market involvement. Inferences are made at an aggregate level relevant to categories of victims. Social groupings of victims were better predictors of homicidal circumstances than socioeconomic status levels. SES was found to be most relevant to the …

Fear Of Crime And Women: An Analysis Of A Paradox (Louisiana)., Cheryl L. Thayer-Doyle

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Research indicates that sex is the most powerful predictor of fear of crime and that women have a higher level of fear than men. A paradox arises because women have a higher level of fear but are victimized less. This dissertation examines: (1) the underlying dimensions of fear and the specific offenses that evoke fear in men and women; (2) selected social and demographic characteristics and their relationship to a criterion variable; and (3) the effect the fear of rape contributes to the differences in the level of fear between men and women. The data was taken from a larger …

Sociologists And The Vietnam War: A Historical Document Analysis (Commodification, Post-Industrial)., Robert Earl Sanderson

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Textbooks are important representative statements of certified and legitimated knowledge within an academic discipline, and the manner in which introductory sociology textbooks assess society reflect the power and sophistication of theories in discerning social patterns and structures. That the pivotal historical event of the Vietnam War and its implications for contemporary American social institutions was virtually omitted in our sample of one hundred-twenty textbooks raises critical issues for sociology. Content analysis of Vietnam War era textbooks (1954-1975) revealed 75% of the sample, divided among four major research orienting paradigms extant in sociology, ignored mention of the war and only the …

Plant Shutdown/Layoff And Social Support Interventions, Mitchell Swatez

Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects

In 1986 it is generally accepted that national economic conditions have improved over recessionary conditions which occurred in the late 1970's and early 1980's. Decline in the manufacturing or "smokestack" sector of the economy is not the major headline or concern that it was a few short years ago. Substantial numbers of workers have been recalled in construction, automotive, aircraft and other industries in the heavy manufacturing sector, demonstrating again the cyclical nature of these industries. Hard times are not over however in the economy — a substantial number of industries, geographic regions, communities and workers are still being impacted …

Why People Like Horror Films: An Exploratory Study With Special Reference To The Opponent-Process Theory, Lori Graham

Whittier Scholars Program

The paper explores the reasons why audiences love horror films from a sociological perspective, specifically through the fear-pleasure paradox and the opponent-process theory.

Soudeska: The Czech Festival Change And Continuity In Wilber, Nebraska, Lois Shimerda Rood

Student Work

This field study explores the meaning of the Czech Festival, Soudeska, to the members of the community of Wilber, Nebraska and to those who participate. It examines the ways in which the festival affects both change and continuity in the major institutions of the community--specifically the family, the church, the education system, the political structure, and the economy. The meaning of festival to various groups of citizens important to the community is analyzed. The purpose of this project is to produce an ethnography of the Czech Festival of Wilber, Nebraska.

Black Police, White Society, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Black Police, White Society by Stephen Leinen

A Home For The Homeless: A Sociological Exegesis Of 1 Peter, Its Situation And Strategy [Review] / John H. Elliott., Pedrito U. Maynard-Reid

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

No abstract provided.