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Perceiving Oppression: Relationships With Resilience, Self-Esteem, Depressive Symptoms, And Reliance On God In African-American Homeless Men, Jill Littrell, Elizabeth Beck
Perceiving Oppression: Relationships With Resilience, Self-Esteem, Depressive Symptoms, And Reliance On God In African-American Homeless Men, Jill Littrell, Elizabeth Beck
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Empowerment has been proffered as a desirable goal for many disadvantaged populations. The process of empowerment can include encouraging disadvantaged individuals to recognize the structural factors in society (e.g., discrimination, oppression, injustice) which contribute to disadvantaged status. Two studies sought to determine the impact that recognition of oppression has on a disadvantaged individual's (1) self-esteem; (2) level of depressive symptoms; (3) resilience which includes a sense of master y and optimism; (4) anger; and (5) reliance on God. These issues were investiga ted in a sample of African-American men seeking services at a soup-kitchen ministry. Perceptions of racial discrimination were …
If Deliberative Democracy Is The Solution, What Is The Problem?, Emily Hauptmann
If Deliberative Democracy Is The Solution, What Is The Problem?, Emily Hauptmann
Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers
Presented March 18, 1999 for the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society.
Gun Control, Hugh Lafollette
Gun Control, Hugh Lafollette
Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers
Presented October 22, 1998 for the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society.
Review Of The Poor Belong To Us: Catholic Charities And American Welfare. Dorothy M. Brown And Elizabeth Mckeown. Reviewed By Dorothy Van Soest, University Of Texas, Austin., Dorothy Van Soest
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Book review of Dorothy M. Brown and Elizabeth McKeown, The Poor Belong to Us: Catholic Charities and American Welfare. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998. $45.00 hardcover.
Rabbi Ezra Ben Solomon Of Gerona, Commentary On The Song Of Songs And Other Kabbalistic Commentaries, Seth Brody
Rabbi Ezra Ben Solomon Of Gerona, Commentary On The Song Of Songs And Other Kabbalistic Commentaries, Seth Brody
TEAMS Commentary Series
The commentary of Rabbi Ezra ben Solomon of Gerona (d. ca. 1245) on the Song of Songs is one of the most important texts of the first clearly identified circle of Kabbalists, those operating in the Catalonian town of Gerona at the middle of the thirteenth century.