Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons™
Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Institution
- Keyword
-
- Child development (5)
- Family (5)
- Consumer education (2)
- Home economics (2)
- Population (2)
-
- 1965-70 (1)
- 1970 (1)
- Analysis (1)
- Blue collar (1)
- Census (1)
- Census analysis (1)
- Child abuse (1)
- Clay County (1)
- Coal mines (1)
- Concept attainment (1)
- Connecticut (1)
- Connecticut population (1)
- Consumer awareness (1)
- Creative marriage (1)
- D.H. Lawrence (1)
- Delinquent (1)
- Demgraphics (1)
- Demographics (1)
- Dissolution of marriage (1)
- Divorce law (1)
- Divorced In America (1)
- Domestic abuse (1)
- Emotional maturity (1)
- Farm life (1)
- Fertility (1)
- Publication
- Publication Type
Articles 1 - 21 of 21
Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences
Maturity Of Adolescent Unwed Mothers, Sarah L. Claiborne
Maturity Of Adolescent Unwed Mothers, Sarah L. Claiborne
Dissertations and Theses
Adolescence traditionally has been recognized and accepted as a period of exploration of an occasional rebellion against the adult world. Explorations are viewed by behavioral scientists as a quest for identity expansion, and as such, a necessary phase for attaining maturity. Several tasks have been identified which each adolescent must complete if he is to reach maturity. For the present these tasks can be summarized as character formation, attainment of sexual identity, establishment of mature relationships and emancipation from parental control.
Society's attitude towards the rebellion and exploitation of youth is mixed. This confusion seems related to a general breakdown …
A Holistic Perspective On Child Abuse And Its Prevention, David G. Gil
A Holistic Perspective On Child Abuse And Its Prevention, David G. Gil
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
In recent decades, child abuse has come to be considered a social problem of significant scope and has, therefore, attracted intense public and scholarly interest. Yet, in spite of efforts by scholars, professionals, government agencies, concerned individuals and organizations, and the media of public communications, misconceptions prevail concerning the nature, sources, and dynamics of this destructive phenomenon and concerning effective approaches to its primary prevention. Such conceptual shortcomings, and a related persistent failure to design effective policies and programs for the primary prevention of child abuse, seem to be due to a number of obstacles.
Marriage In An Age Of Possibility: Joseph Epstein's Divorced In America, William I. Fine
Marriage In An Age Of Possibility: Joseph Epstein's Divorced In America, William I. Fine
IUSTITIA
Ever since the William Loud family first exhibited their marital difficulties on the Public Broadcasting Service, there has been a new direction in the popular literature on American divorce. In the past, the study of marital breakdown relied heavily on a foundation of case studies and empirical data. As society became more complex and variable, permutations from the basic theories became inextricably confused. Often the validity of a research technique would become a greater point of controversy than the results achieved. The product was a contradictory and prematurely dated body of knowledge in which no conclusive evidence could be assembled …
Protective Services: Coercive Social Control Or Mutual Liberation, Alfred J. Fortin
Protective Services: Coercive Social Control Or Mutual Liberation, Alfred J. Fortin
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Excerpt from the full-text article:
The area of protective services for children has always been a difficult one for social work. Protective casework has, and is now, both praised and condemned simultaneously from different elements of the community. The stakes in the protective field are usually high and players are subject to various episodes of the "emotional plague" as Wilhelm Reich would have called it. People in protective work exercise their role as worker in a variety of ways and these 'styles' range from being police-like and oppressive to radical and promoting social change. It is characteristic of this work …
Social Work Practice And The Social Context, Jeffry Galper
Social Work Practice And The Social Context, Jeffry Galper
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Any effort to define appropriate tasks and directions for social work practice must necessarily come to grips with some analysis of the particular social-political-historical situation within which that practice is being formulated. Too often it seems as though we attempt to define practice abstracted from the particular period in which that practice takes place. It is true, on the one hand, that it is important to develop generic principles of practice. Similarly, it is true that the definition of the social work task is not a matter left solely to the discretion of the profession. In fact, the profession may …
Evaluating A Pilot Social Service Project For Widows: A Chronicle Of Research Problems, S. Roxanne Hiltz
Evaluating A Pilot Social Service Project For Widows: A Chronicle Of Research Problems, S. Roxanne Hiltz
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
The decade of the 70's has seen the appearance of a number of publications in the area of "evaluation research", the effort to systematically apply social science research methods to the evaluation of action programs set up for the purpose of helping to solve social problems. Evaluation research is thus one area in which social scientists can be of direct aid in setting public policy about social welfare services.
An excellent primer on the problems that are likely to arise in the course of an evaluation effort and the "conventional wisdom" that has been developed thus far is Carol Weiss' …
Goals And Locus Of Control Of Female Delinquent And Non-Delinquent Juveniles, Geraldine Bates
Goals And Locus Of Control Of Female Delinquent And Non-Delinquent Juveniles, Geraldine Bates
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
A comparison of perception of locus of control and identification of goals between delinquent and non-delinquent juvenile females was conducted.
The delinquent sample consisted of 20 female students at the Idaho State Youth Training Center. The non-delinquent sample consisted of 20 female students from two Idaho Public Secondary schools. The non-delinquent subjects were paired with the delinquent subjects as closely as possible according to age, religion, education, size and composition of family, and size of home town.
The instruments used were: (l) a background questionnaire, (2) a goal identification questionnaire, and (3) Rotter's I-E scale.
The difference between the mean …
The Cost Of A Home Economics Food Program In The State Of Utah, Joyce Leavitt Winterton
The Cost Of A Home Economics Food Program In The State Of Utah, Joyce Leavitt Winterton
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The purposes of this paper are to provide a guid.e line for determining the budget for a Consumer and Homemaking foods program in the secondary schools of Utah, and to suggest some food buying procedures. In order to achieve these purposes, questionnaires were sent to the 167 ,junior and senior high schools in the state. Of the questionnaires returned, 99 were complete enough to be utilized for the study; 48 were from junior high schools and 51 from senior high schools. For analysis the schools were grouped according to whether they were a junior or senior high school and then …
The Influence Of Selected Socio-Economic Factors On Consumer Awareness, Virginia Anne Dickinson
The Influence Of Selected Socio-Economic Factors On Consumer Awareness, Virginia Anne Dickinson
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The influence of selected socioeconomic factors on the consumer awareness of women was investigated. An instrument was developed to measure the consumer awareness of individuals. The three areas assessed were awareness of existing problems in the marketplace, awareness of laws that control these problems and sources of help for the consumer when she encounters these problems.
A profile of a woman with low consumer awareness was constructed from the results of the data collected In the study. She will have an annual income of less than $8,000; she will have a high school education or less; her husband will be …
Head Start And School Readiness, Robert Bruce Turner
Head Start And School Readiness, Robert Bruce Turner
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The effect of compensatory education was studied as it influences school readiness in preschool children. The research was conducted in the Logan and Providence areas of Cache County, Utah, with 44 children who had completed the kindergarten year of school. Twenty-two of the children had participated in the compensatory educational experience of Head Start prior to their kindergarten experience. It was found that there was not a significant difference between the Head Start children and their neighbors in terms of their performance on the Boehm Test of Basic Concepts. Therefore, in terms of school preparedness, the Head Start children seem …
Effects Of An Instructional Program On Concept Attainment Of Middle-Class Pre-Kindergarten Children, Joan Spencer Ross
Effects Of An Instructional Program On Concept Attainment Of Middle-Class Pre-Kindergarten Children, Joan Spencer Ross
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The objective of this study was to determine if a highly structured instructional program, as a supplement to a more traditional pre-school program would have an effect on the concept attainment of pre-school children. Two groups of eighteen pre-school children, enrolled in the Child Development Laboratory at Utah State University comprised the study sample.
The eighteen children in the experimental group received the instructional program, in addition to the Child Development Laboratory school experience. Standardized pre and post tests were administered to both the experimental and control groups. A standardized test, The Boehm Test of Basic Concepts, was utilized.
An …
Marriage Role Expectations And Religiosity, Gilbert Craig Orme
Marriage Role Expectations And Religiosity, Gilbert Craig Orme
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The purpose of this paper was to determine the effect, if any, of religiosity on marriage role expectations. During the past years, the young person's marriage role expectations have been undergoing a gradual change from traditional type roles to more equalitarian-partnership type roles, Religiosity has been found to have a differing effect on the values of people. It was hypothesized that the more religious a person was, the more traditional he would be in his marriage role expectations. Religiosity was determined using a questionnaire developed by Faulkner and De Jong, Marriage role expectations were determined by using an instrument developed …
Attitudes Of High School And College Females Toward Family Life And Children, Pauline Nelson
Attitudes Of High School And College Females Toward Family Life And Children, Pauline Nelson
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The purpose of this study was to investigate the degree of similarity or differences between the attitudes of high school and college females toward family life and children.
Data for this study were collected by administering a standardized questionnaire with 35 items to both groups of students. The students' responses were evaluated and each question analyzed separately.
The findings of this study indicate that the responses of the college sample were more realistic than for the high school sample. Also the high school sample appeared to have more glamorous expectations of marriage than did the college sample.
Children's Perceptions Of The Nurse, Nancy Adams Coulter
Children's Perceptions Of The Nurse, Nancy Adams Coulter
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The purpose of this study is to assess children's perceptions of the nurse as they are related to children's age, the amount of contact children have had with nurses and children's sex.
An oral picture test, consisting of 10 photographs, was administered to 45 children in the Edith Bowen Elementary School at Utah State University. The children were interviewed about their perceptions of the nurses in each photograph and their responses were rated as being positive, negative or neutral.
The findings of this study indicate that although significant differences exist in children's perceptions of the nurse in terms of positive, …
Experts Probe Child Abuse Problems At Conference, Lisa Halvorsen
Experts Probe Child Abuse Problems At Conference, Lisa Halvorsen
Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
Every day there are hundreds of recorded instances of children being abused or sexually molested, yet often times nothing is done about it. Part of the problem is that a lot of people don't know what to do.
Residential Mobility Of The Population Of Connecticut, 1965-70, Kenneth Hadden
Residential Mobility Of The Population Of Connecticut, 1965-70, Kenneth Hadden
Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station
No abstract provided.
Oral History Interview: William T. Arnold, William T. Arnold
Oral History Interview: William T. Arnold, William T. Arnold
0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection
William T. Arnold (Bill Arnold), a Native West Virginian, lived the majority of his life in Clay County. Mr. Arnold spent his early childhood on a farm on Galon Mountain. After the death of his father, Mr. Arnold moved with his family to various towns within Clay County. In 1911, when he was eleven years old, Mr. Arnold started his first job in coal mining, working thirteen hours a night as a water dipper. When he was eighteen years old, Mr. Arnold began working as a postman and delivered mail on a route near the New River, between the towns …
Stranger In Our Midst: The Working Class Woman, Yvonne Van Der Klip Stam
Stranger In Our Midst: The Working Class Woman, Yvonne Van Der Klip Stam
IUSTITIA
Although some of the concrete goals of women's liberation such as adequate available day care for children are important to women of both the blue collar and middle classes, the philosophy expressed by the movement is not calculated to attract the working class woman. Two incomes may be increasingly necessary to the middle class family, and an increasing number of middle class women are now supporting their children alone, but the movement speaks of freeing women fiom child care to pursue a career, an idea which does not speak to a blue collar woman concerned with getting a job to …
The Population Of Connecticut, 1970: Nativity And Racial Composition, Kenneth P. Hadden
The Population Of Connecticut, 1970: Nativity And Racial Composition, Kenneth P. Hadden
Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station
No abstract provided.
Residency Differentials In Mormon Fertility, Brian Leroy Pitcher
Residency Differentials In Mormon Fertility, Brian Leroy Pitcher
Theses and Dissertations
Although one of the most consistent findings of recent fertility research is the convergence of the religious differentials in fertility, little data have been analyzed to discover the Mormon fertility trends and differentials. This study, based on data obtained on 1,001 Mormon couples, is concerned with describing the effects that the dispersion of Mormon families from the Mormon center in Utah to surrounding areas with various social conditions is having on the fertility of the relocated Mormon families. Data presented clearly show that such families do, on the average, have a lower fertility than do their Mormon contemporaries residing in …
A Documentary History Of The Lord's Way Of Watching Over The Church By The Priesthood Through The Ages, Rex A. Anderson
A Documentary History Of The Lord's Way Of Watching Over The Church By The Priesthood Through The Ages, Rex A. Anderson
Theses and Dissertations
Since the days of Adam the Lord has called upon the priesthood to watch over the families: To see that fathers are doing their duty as patriarchs over their families, and to assist and encourage the fathers in this responsibility. Thus thwarting the efforts of Satan to lead the children of men astray. The principle has always been for the priesthood to watch over the families. But the process of how this is done has changed from time to time according to the needs of the people. This treatise covers the history of these changes in documentary form.
In the …