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Communal Societies

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Communal Societies

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Culture, Collectivism And Chaos: A Case Study, Garry Favel

Communal Societies

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The Prairieleut: A Forgotten Hutterite People, Rod Janzen

Communal Societies

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Market Integration And Agricultural Efficiency Of Communal Amana, Metin M. Cosgel

Communal Societies

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Introduction: Boundaries In Communal Amana, Jonathan G. Andelson

Communal Societies

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Post Civil War American Communes: A Millenarian Utopian Commune Linking Chicago And Nas, Sweden, To Jerusalem, Ruth Kark

Communal Societies

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Assessing Psychopathology In Communal Societies, Susan Matarese, Paul Salmon

Communal Societies

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Lust, "A Snare Of Satan To Beguile The Soul": New Light On Shaker Celibacy, Glendyne R. Wergland

Communal Societies

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Index To Communal Societies, Volumes 1-15 (1981-1995), Lyman Tower Sargent

Communal Societies

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Artists' Colonies As Communal Societies In The Arts And Crafts Era, Timothy Miller

Communal Societies

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Damanhur: A Magical Community In Italy, Massimo Introvigne

Communal Societies

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Gustav Landauer And The Bruderhof Communities, Michael Tyldesley

Communal Societies

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Crisis And Transformation The Kibbutz At The Turn Of The Century, Eliezer Ben-Rafael

Communal Societies

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Student Housing Cooperatives Communitarianism Among American Youth, Deborah Altus

Communal Societies

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Franz Oppeneimer's Contribution To The Theory Of Co-Operation, Dieter Haselbach

Communal Societies

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Communal Societies

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Factors That Contribute To Lone-Wolf Terrorist Attacks In The United States, Kevin Klatte

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Within the United States, current strategies aimed to prevent terrorism focus on terrorist organizations and international terrorism. The predominant literature on lone-wolf terrorism has focused mainly on quantitative data, and the qualitative studies that have been conducted do not uncover all factors that led to the individual committing the attack. Lone-wolf terrorism, while less frequent than international terrorism, has a significantly higher number of victims per attack and is extremely difficult to predict and prevent. The existing qualitative literature has heavily focused on the mental state, emotional status, and cognitive ability of the offender. This study explored why an individual …

Incarceration’S Impact On Young Adults’ Psychological Development, Well-Being, And Reintegration Into Society, Monica Murrell

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

This qualitative phenomenological study explored how individuals who experienced incarceration during emerging adulthood understood and made meaning of their developmental, emotional, and psychosocial experiences. Emerging adulthood, defined as ages seventeen through twenty-five, is a critical developmental stage, and incarceration during this period may disrupt identity formation and emotional maturation. The purpose of the study was to examine the perspectives and coping mechanisms of individuals incarcerated during this stage to better understand how early adult imprisonment shapes trauma responses, identity development, and reintegration. Social learning theory served as the conceptual framework. Data was collected through interviews with six formerly incarcerated adults …

Ud In The News Feb. 1-6, University Of Dayton

News Releases

Several local outlets covered President Eric Spina's retirement announcement plus tapped faculty expertise in law, fitness, political science and sociology. Faculty also contributed to The Conversation, Railway Age and Catholic World Report.

Determinants Of Big Data Analytics Adoption Among Small And Medium-Sized Enterprises In Ghana, Seth Owusu

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Big data analytics (BDA) has the potential to drive sustainability through improved decision-making, innovation, and competitiveness; however, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Ghana face significant challenges in adopting this technology. The specific research problem is whether technological readiness, organizational support, and external pressures influence SMEs’ adoption of BDA in Ghana. Grounded in the technology-organization-environment framework, the resource-based view, and institutional theory, the purpose of this descriptive survey study was to examine whether technological readiness, organizational support, and external pressures influence SMEs’ adoption of BDA in Ghana. The participants comprised 120 SMEs registered with the Ghana Enterprise Agency. They completed …

Introducing Safe-Ai: A Behavioral Framework For Managing Ethical Dilemmas In Ai-Driven Human Resource Practices, Rob E. Carpenter, Debaro Huyler, Sanket Patole, Rochell Mcwhorter

Human Resource Development Faculty Publications and Presentations

Organizations increasingly deploy artificial intelligence (AI) in human resource (HR) decision processes to improve efficiency and strategic execution, yet ethical failures persist when principles remain decoupled from everyday workflow enactment. This paper addresses AI-ethics in HR practice by advancing a behavior-first premise: AI-ethics becomes durable organizational practice only when ethical intent is translated into observable routines and cues that employees can interpret as legitimate and consistently enforced. We introduce the Socially Aware Framework for Ethical AI (SAFE-AI), which integrates normative ethical reasoning (consequentialist and deontological logics), social information processing, and socially informed heuristics as a practical translation layer for HR …

Hampton’S Legacies Across Black And Indigenous Education: Subhumanity, Genocide And Self-Determination Of The Past And Present, Arcasia D. James-Gallaway, M. Nathan Tanner, Francena F.L. Turner

College of Humanities and Social Sciences

How are Black and Indigenous education in the US related? How are antiBlackness and settler colonialism interconnected? This essay addresses these questions, reexamining the history of one of the only US schools to educate both groups: Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute. To explore the contemporary legacies of Hampton, we bring together a race-centered historical methodology and Black and Indigenous studies perspectives. We argue that three enduring legacies – subhumanity, genocide and self-determination – with roots in the school itself frame the present, collective struggle for Black and Indigenous justice in education. This focus provides both historical and current insights with …

Faculty Highlights: Fall 2025, New York Law School

NYLS Community News

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Citizen Perceptions Of Law Enforcement Use Of Facial Recognition Technology, Helena Raye Weiskittel

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Use of facial recognition technology (FRT) in criminal investigations is potentially controversial in terms of privacy rights. This study involved examining public perceptions regarding police officers’ use of FRT in criminal investigations. A qualitative research method and descriptive design were used to explore participants’ perceptions of FRT. The procedural justice theory and a pragmatic paradigm guided this general qualitative research. The target population for the study was 10 participants from the United States. Results of this study showed privacy concerns involved a lack of public anonymity and the risk of data breaches due to facial recognition. This shows use of …

“Wi” Segregation Still Exists: An Analysis Of Digital Segregation In Los Angeles, Ethan Lin

Sociology Between the Gaps: Forgotten and Neglected Topics

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Deconstructing Gender Relations In Selected Essays By Abdelkébir Khatibi And Fatema Mernissi, Hanane El Majidi

Faits de Langue et Société (FLS)

This article examines how gender relations are deconstructed in selected essays by Abdelkébir Khatibi and Fatema Mernissi, situating their work within Moroccan debates of the 1980s and 1990s on social change and the family. It analyzes writing strategies and theoretical resources—literary and sociological—used to question gender as a socially acquired performance. Particular attention is given to Mernissi’s texts, where multiple female voices (songs, interviews, and familial figures) are made audible and reworked into a political reading of rights, labor, and access to public space. The study shows how the essay form operates as a site for shifting norms and for …

Mignone, Fernandez, Guarnieri: Brazilian Guitar Music After Villa-Lobos, Fabio Zanon

Soundboard Scholar

This article challenges the widespread perception of Heitor Villa-Lobos as an isolated peak in Brazilian musical culture with no natural successors. The author focuses on the composers who followed Villa-Lobos—Francisco Mignone, Oscar Lorenzo Fernandez, and Camargo Guarnieri—arguing that their works deserve far more attention in international concert life, not least their contributions to the guitar repertoire.

These twentieth-century Brazilian composers are situated within a broader historical narrative that traces the impact of European colonial models, the delayed and contested formation of musical nationalism in Brazil, and the shifting aesthetic and political conditions of the twentieth century. Analytical discussions of representative …

Black Women In Oregon Academia, Topanga Shakur-Freeman

PSU McNair Scholars Online Journal

Black women scholars are a powerful demographic of intellectuals navigating a haunted house of academia, a structure erected upon the bones of a grotesque past. Black women scholars navigate a complex and often hostile academic landscape, a realm marked by under representation and the insidious interplay of race and gender. Oregon, a state steeped in a sinister history of racial terror, casts a long shadow over its present. Its soil, contaminated by the blood of countless Black lives, serves as a fertile ground for the insidious growth of systemic racism. Until 1905, a malevolent decree barred Black individuals from even …

Group Photo: 100 Million Mexicans, Juan Villoro

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

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