Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons™
Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Institution
-
- Population Council (175)
- University of Nebraska - Lincoln (79)
- University of Nevada, Las Vegas (66)
- University of Massachusetts Boston (48)
- University of New Hampshire (45)
-
- SIT Graduate Institute/SIT Study Abroad (39)
- Western Kentucky University (31)
- Western University (28)
- Columbia College Chicago (24)
- University of Nebraska at Omaha (24)
- Wilfrid Laurier University (24)
- Singapore Management University (23)
- University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School (22)
- Technological University Dublin (20)
- University of Kentucky (20)
- University of Wisconsin Milwaukee (19)
- City University of New York (CUNY) (18)
- Grand Valley State University (18)
- Portland State University (17)
- San Jose State University (14)
- The University of Maine (13)
- University of North Florida (11)
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville (10)
- Antioch University (9)
- Lingnan University (9)
- Montclair State University (9)
- University of Pittsburgh School of Law (9)
- Cleveland State University (8)
- University at Albany, State University of New York (8)
- Wayne State University (8)
- Keyword
-
- English (155)
- Poverty Gender and Youth (116)
- Youth (87)
- Demographic Analysis (76)
- Gender (72)
-
- Adolescents (Female) (62)
- Adolescents (Male) (53)
- India (40)
- Erving (38)
- Goffman (38)
- Symbolic interactionism (38)
- Social interaction (37)
- Reproductive Health (30)
- Interviews (24)
- Sociologists (22)
- Employment (19)
- Population Demographics (17)
- Access to Integrated Employment (15)
- African National Congress (15)
- Developmental Disabilities (15)
- Education (15)
- I/DD (15)
- South Africa (15)
- ThinkWork (15)
- Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (14)
- Nelson Mandela (14)
- Biography (13)
- Crime (13)
- Egypt (13)
- Life Skills (13)
- Publication
-
- Poverty, Gender, and Youth (128)
- Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection (39)
- Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives (38)
- Reproductive Health (37)
- Carsey School of Public Policy (30)
-
- Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi) (23)
- All Faculty Scholarship (22)
- Chicago Anti-Apartheid Movement (22)
- Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications (22)
- Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Trafficking: 1st (2009) (21)
- ETI Publications (19)
- Articles (18)
- Community Maps (17)
- Partnerships for Children and Families Project (15)
- ThinkWork! Publications (15)
- Research Collection School of Social Sciences (14)
- Sociology Faculty Publications (14)
- Faculty Publications (13)
- Gerontology Institute Publications (11)
- University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research Discussion Paper Series (11)
- HIV and AIDS (10)
- Publications and Research (10)
- Antioch University Dissertations & Theses (9)
- Masters Theses & Specialist Projects (9)
- Sociology (9)
- Maine Women's Publications - All (8)
- Sociology Faculty Publications and Presentations (8)
- Commission for LGBT - Reports, Minutes, Events and Other Documents (7)
- Human Trafficking: Data and Documents (7)
- Textual material from the Rodney Lawrence Hurst, Sr. Papers (7)
Articles 1 - 30 of 1071
Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences
Southern Nevada Agency Partnership Cultural Site Stewardship Program – Program Expansion And Steward Retention: Quarterly Progress Report, Period Ending December 31, 2009, Margaret N. Rees
Cultural Site Stewardship Program
- A total of 25 stewards initiate Abandoned Mines survey for NP
- CSSP stewards record Grapevine Canyon near Laughlin
- CSSP recognition event draws 103 participants
Nevada Interagency Volunteer Program: Helping Hands Across Public Lands – Phase Ii: Quarterly Progress Report, Period Covering October 1, 2009 To December 31, 2009, Margaret N. Rees
Get Outdoors Nevada
- The number of records in the volunteer database decreased by 14% over last quarter. The database now contains 5,996 records.
- Website activity increased, recording an average of 121,918 hits per month, an increase of 8% from last quarter, with an average of 9,686 pages viewed per month.
- Volunteer fall training has been completed.
- One hundred and twenty-seven people attended the Volunteer Recognition Event.
New Hampshire's Population Exceeds Maine's For The First Time In 200 Years, Kenneth M. Johnson
New Hampshire's Population Exceeds Maine's For The First Time In 200 Years, Kenneth M. Johnson
Carsey School of Public Policy
For the first time in more than 200 years, the population of New Hampshire exceeded that of Maine. As of July 1, 2009, U.S. Census Bureau estimates New Hampshire's population at 1,324,575 compared to 1,318,301 in Maine. New Hampshire grew faster than Maine over the last decade. Since 2000, New Hampshire gained 89,000 new residents compared to Maine's 43,000.
Students In Rural Schools Have Limited Access To Advanced Mathematics Courses, Suzanne E. Graham
Students In Rural Schools Have Limited Access To Advanced Mathematics Courses, Suzanne E. Graham
Carsey School of Public Policy
This Carsey brief reveals that students in rural areas and small towns have less access to higher-level mathematics courses than students in urban settings, which results in serious educational consequences, including lower scores on assessment tests and fewer qualified students entering science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) job pipelines.
Project Animate: Promoting Student Civic Participation Through Latino Voter Mobilization - Ollas Report No. 6, Jonathan Benjamin-Alvarado
Project Animate: Promoting Student Civic Participation Through Latino Voter Mobilization - Ollas Report No. 6, Jonathan Benjamin-Alvarado
Latino/Latin American Studies Reports
This project sought to expand voter outreach and mobilization of new registered and Latino voters through a series of activities in the greater Omaha metropolitan area. Following the successful development of a voter mobilization project undertaken in the 2006 election cycle, this project conducted door-to-door canvassing activities utilizing students to distribute nonpartisan voter information and engage in “get out the vote” activities with new Latino registered voters.
Ua37/29 Gary Ransdell - Fed. Reserve Board - Ben Bernanke Q&A Session, St. Louis Federal Reserve Board
Ua37/29 Gary Ransdell - Fed. Reserve Board - Ben Bernanke Q&A Session, St. Louis Federal Reserve Board
WKU Archives Records
Email sent to members of the St. Louis Federal Reserve Board regarding the question and answer session following Bernanke's speech at the Washington Economic Club.
Dmitri Shalin Interview With Dean Maccannell About Erving Goffman Entitled "Some Of Goffman’S Guardedness And Verbal Toughness Was Simply A Way Of Giving Himself The Space And Time That He Needed To Do The Work That He Really Loved", Dean Maccannell
Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives
This conversation with Dean MacCannell, Professor of Environmental Design at the University of California Davis, was recorded over the phone on July 7, 2009. The initial exchange lasting a minute or so is reconstructed from memory. Breaks in the conversation flow are indicated by ellipses. Supplementary information and additional materials inserted during the editing process appear in square brackets. Undecipherable words and unclear passages are identified in the text as “[?]”.
Understanding The Determinants Of Police Identification Of Human Trafficking Cases, Amy Farrell
Understanding The Determinants Of Police Identification Of Human Trafficking Cases, Amy Farrell
Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Trafficking: 1st (2009)
The passage of new laws criminalizing the trafficking of persons for labor and sexual services has raised public awareness about the problem of trafficking. In response, we expect local law enforcement to learn about the problem, identify trafficking victims and make arrests. The numbers of victims identified by the police, however, has paled in comparison to official estimates, leading some to question the existence of a trafficking problem. Missing from this debate is information about how frequently police encounter situations involving human trafficking and how well prepared officers are to deal with these cases. Analyzing survey responses from a national …
Increased Reliance On Wives As Breadwinners During The First Year Of The Recession, Kristin Smith
Increased Reliance On Wives As Breadwinners During The First Year Of The Recession, Kristin Smith
Carsey School of Public Policy
Among low-income families, the wages of employed wives account for the majority of family earnings, according to this Carsey brief. The analysis finds that in 2008, women contributed 56 percent of total family earnings, up from 51 percent in 2007. Also, husbands' education level and race are factors in how much wives contribute to family earnings.
(Review) The Illusion Of Civil Society: Democratization And Community Mobilization In Low-Income Mexico, Robert Gay
(Review) The Illusion Of Civil Society: Democratization And Community Mobilization In Low-Income Mexico, Robert Gay
Sociology Faculty Publications
The article reviews the book "The Illusion of Civil Society: Democratization and Community Mobilization in Low-Income Mexico," by Jon Shefner.
The Impact Of An Urban Wal-Mart Store On Area Businesses: An Evaluation Of One Chicago Neighborhood's Experience, Center For Urban Research And Learning, Julie Davis, David Merriman, Lucia Samayoa, Brian Flanagan, Ron Baiman, Joseph Persky
The Impact Of An Urban Wal-Mart Store On Area Businesses: An Evaluation Of One Chicago Neighborhood's Experience, Center For Urban Research And Learning, Julie Davis, David Merriman, Lucia Samayoa, Brian Flanagan, Ron Baiman, Joseph Persky
Center for Urban Research and Learning: Publications and Other Works
Having achieved nearly complete coverage of non-urban and suburban markets, mega-retailer Wal-Mart has turned its attention to urban expansion. Evaluations of Wal-Mart’s impact on urban retail businesses and local employment are necessary to inform policy makers, scholars, and community activists looking to improve economic opportunities for inner-city residents. This study focuses on the Wal-Mart store that opened on the West Side of Chicago in September 2006.
With The Sweat Of Our Brows: A Qualitative Interview Study On The Meaning Of Work For Illinois And Nebraska Family Farming Couples With Long Careers, Sheri J. Hink
Master's Theses - Sociology and Anthropology
This thesis explores the social identities and the work and business strategies of five farming couples who had long farming careers in the Midwest. Much of the literature presented within this thesis discusses the hardships that family farmers face in today’s economy. However, the research also points to a strong attachment to farming and the farming lifestyle despite its many challenges. Using a qualitative interviewing method, I was interested in studying what meaning these farming couples attached to their work, including any gendered division of labor, and what survival techniques they had employed. I found that the five family farming …
Working Report #5: Child Welfare Jobs (Service Provider Perspectives), Gary Cameron, Lirondel Hazineh, Karen Frensch
Working Report #5: Child Welfare Jobs (Service Provider Perspectives), Gary Cameron, Lirondel Hazineh, Karen Frensch
Partnerships for Children and Families Project
This report compares how service providers experience their employment realities across central, integrated, and accessible service models. Differences in job satisfaction, worker retention, and feelings about the work itself are examined.
Life Domain Research Report Series: Family (2010 Update), Gary Cameron, Lirondel Hazineh, Karen Frensch, Michele Preyde
Life Domain Research Report Series: Family (2010 Update), Gary Cameron, Lirondel Hazineh, Karen Frensch, Michele Preyde
Partnerships for Children and Families Project
A key consideration in understanding the long term community adaptation of children and youth involved with residential treatment or intensive family services is the role that family plays in sustaining or eroding gains made by children and youth in treatment (Frensch & Cameron, 2002). This report includes a summary of family descriptive information, the nature of family relationships, and indicators of family functioning for children and youth who have participated in children’s mental health services.
Data were collected about youth who had been involved with children’s mental health residential treatment (RT) or intensive family service programs (IFS), designed as an …
Life Domain Research Report Series: Youth And Parent Health And Well Being (2010 Update), Michele Preyde, Karen Frensch, Gary Cameron, Lirondel Hazineh
Life Domain Research Report Series: Youth And Parent Health And Well Being (2010 Update), Michele Preyde, Karen Frensch, Gary Cameron, Lirondel Hazineh
Partnerships for Children and Families Project
Children and youth who have participated in children’s mental health services often continue to live with a variety of emotional and behavioural challenges after service involvement has ended (Cameron, de Boer, Frensch, & Adams, 2003). A key consideration in understanding the long term community adaptation of these children and youth is the ongoing management of emotional and behavioural challenges and the impact these challenges have in the daily lives of youth and their families. Several standardized measures of mental health, physical health, stress, and quality of life were used to assess parental and youth functioning in the life domain of …
Working Report #3: Use Of Legal Measures And Formal Authority (Service Provider Perspectives), Lirondel Hazineh, Gary Cameron
Working Report #3: Use Of Legal Measures And Formal Authority (Service Provider Perspectives), Lirondel Hazineh, Gary Cameron
Partnerships for Children and Families Project
The focus of this report is, across service delivery models, how front-line protection workers viewed their formal authority role and the extent to which they relied on legal measures in order to achieve protection goals. The analysis is guided by several overarching questions including (1) how does each model view the use of legal measures and formal authority? (2) How does each model impact service providers’ actual use of legal measures? (3) What value do workers place on the authority figure role? And (4) how effective is the use of formal authority in reaching child protection goals?
Type of program …
Working Report #1: Service Model Accessibility (Service Provider Perspectives), Lirondel Hazineh, Gary Cameron
Working Report #1: Service Model Accessibility (Service Provider Perspectives), Lirondel Hazineh, Gary Cameron
Partnerships for Children and Families Project
This report examines the differences in service accessibility across central, integrated, and school/community based child welfare service delivery models including geographic proximity to families, acceptability of the setting to families, and accessibility expectations of service providers. Results suggest that accessibility characteristics of the model can make a significant difference to front-line service delivery from the perspective of front-line protection workers.
A defining feature of the community and school based child welfare models was increased accessibility for families and workers. Through making themselves more accessible, the community and school based settings had some significant service delivery advantages including more regular, varied, …
Working Report #2: Client And Community Relations (Service Provider Perspectives), Lirondel Hazineh, Gary Cameron
Working Report #2: Client And Community Relations (Service Provider Perspectives), Lirondel Hazineh, Gary Cameron
Partnerships for Children and Families Project
This report addresses two important questions: how much emphasis is placed on building positive relationships with families and communities across agency based, integrated service, and community and school based models of service delivery? And, how successful is each model at building relationships, minimizing stigma for families, and improving the image of child welfare in the community?
Educating clients and the community about child welfare services was identified as an important role for workers in some sites and not in others. While families’ fears of child protection services were a concern, some workers also expressed a fear of their clients and …
Working Report #4: Range Of Services (Service Provider Perspectives), Lirondel Hazineh, Gary Cameron
Working Report #4: Range Of Services (Service Provider Perspectives), Lirondel Hazineh, Gary Cameron
Partnerships for Children and Families Project
This working report examines the differences in range of services across central, integrated, and school/community based sites including referrals to other services, direct support, advocacy, and collaborative efforts to provide services to families. Which models provide the most service options for families? How do service providers view the service options available to them in their work with families? How helpful are services to families?
The range of services available within agency based settings seemed the narrowest in comparison to other types of service delivery settings. Integrated service models appeared to increase the range and access to many formal services. Community …
Working Report #7: Helping Relationships In Child Welfare (Parent Perspectives), Lirondel Hazineh, Gary Cameron, Karen Frensch
Working Report #7: Helping Relationships In Child Welfare (Parent Perspectives), Lirondel Hazineh, Gary Cameron, Karen Frensch
Partnerships for Children and Families Project
This report examines the nature of first contacts in child welfare, the level of contact between families and service providers, and the quality of relationships over time across central, integrated, and accessible service delivery models.
I. First Contacts Clarity, consultation, use of power, and positive shifts in perception were central issues identified by parents when discussing their experiences of first contacts with child welfare. More parents in accessible sites had experiences with workers who were clear and provided a sense that they would be supported. Within the accessible sites a strong philosophy of collaboration emerged between worker and participant. Participants …
'City Air Makes Free’: A Multi-Level, Cross-National Analysis Of Self-Efficacy, Jeffrey S. Debies-Carl, Christopher M. Huggins
'City Air Makes Free’: A Multi-Level, Cross-National Analysis Of Self-Efficacy, Jeffrey S. Debies-Carl, Christopher M. Huggins
Sociology Faculty Publications
The effects of cities on the subjective states of individuals have been the subject of continuous inquiry. Recent research has demonstrated potential links between immediate environments and individual outcomes such as perceived powerlessness. However, the results of such studies are inconsistent and fail to account for the greater societal environment in which observations occur. Using a more comparative, cross-national sample and multi-level modeling, we retest the expectation that the immediate physical and social environment influences feelings of powerlessness, and extend the test to consider urbanism operating at societal levels beyond the local. Controlling for demographic composition, we find that urban …
Primetimes Newsletter, Winter 2009-2010, Office Of Lifespan Studies
Primetimes Newsletter, Winter 2009-2010, Office Of Lifespan Studies
PrimeTimes Newsletter
PrimeTimes is the newsletter of the Office of Lifespan Studies in the College of Science at Coastal Carolina University.
Primetimes Newsletter, Winter 2009, Office Of Lifespan Studies
Primetimes Newsletter, Winter 2009, Office Of Lifespan Studies
PrimeTimes Newsletter
PrimeTimes is the newsletter of the Office of Lifespan Studies in the College of Science at Coastal Carolina University.
Service Learning E-News - December 2009, Parkland College
Service Learning E-News - December 2009, Parkland College
Service Learning Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Animal Cognition, Kristin Andrews, Ljiljana Radenovic
Animal Cognition, Kristin Andrews, Ljiljana Radenovic
Sentience Collection
Debates in applied ethics about the proper treatment of animals often refer to empirical data about animal cognition, emotion, and behavior. In addition, there is increasing interest in the question of whether any nonhuman animal could be something like a moral agent.
The Impact Of Third Places On Community Quality Of Life, Leo Wayne Jeffres, Cheryl Campanella Bracken, Guowei Jian, Mary F. Casey
The Impact Of Third Places On Community Quality Of Life, Leo Wayne Jeffres, Cheryl Campanella Bracken, Guowei Jian, Mary F. Casey
Communication Faculty Publications
Older cities struggling with issues of survival focus on jobs and the economy, but competition requires all cities to pay attention to the quality of life that attracts residents. Creating such an inviting environment includes “third places” that foster community and communication among people outside of home and work, yet we have little empirical evidence that speaks to the subject, or their importance for a community’s quality of life. Here we report on a national U.S. survey that asked people to identify such places in their community, producing a wide variety of “third places” that ranged from the most popular …
[Re]Formulating The Informal, Sebastien Coles
[Re]Formulating The Informal, Sebastien Coles
Architecture Senior Theses
The identity associate with the inhabitants of the "Bidonvilles" of Haiti is arguably nonexistent aside from its connection to the impoverished conditions of the Haitian slum/shantytown. This thesis contends that with the insertion of a reformative intervention in the heart of the community promoting a conducive and educational environment while overlaying a currently absent infrastructure, will help in creating a positive inner growth within the informal typology. More specifically architecture will act as a form of "pride of place," enticing interaction through the direction connection to culture.
Nonknowledge: The Bibliographical Organization Of Ignorance, Stupidity, Error, And Unreason: Part Two, Jay H. Bernstein
Nonknowledge: The Bibliographical Organization Of Ignorance, Stupidity, Error, And Unreason: Part Two, Jay H. Bernstein
Publications and Research
Starting with the Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom paradigm in information science it is possible to derive a model of the opposite of knowledge having hierarchical qualities. A range of counterpoints to concepts in the knowledge hierarchy can be identified and ascribed the overall term “nonknowledge.” This model creates a conceptual framework for understanding the connections between topics such as error, ignorance, stupidity, folly, popular misconceptions, and unreason by locating them as levels or phases of nonknowledge. The concept of nonknowledge links heretofore disconnected discourses on these individual topics by philosophers, psychologists, historians, sociologists, satirists, and others. Subject headings provide access to the categories …
Regional Variation In Perceptions About Climate Change., Lawrence C. Hamilton, Barry D. Keim
Regional Variation In Perceptions About Climate Change., Lawrence C. Hamilton, Barry D. Keim
Sociology
A 2007 survey covering rural areas in nine US states provides data on perceived local impacts of climate change. Perceptions vary from region to region, with a pattern suggesting links to real climate specifically to winter warming in snow country. A multivariate analysis using mixed-effects ordered logit regression confirms a significant perception-temperature relationship, net of individual background and ideological characteristics, and of regional variations. These findings invite more detailed research.
Visualizing Population Dynamics Of Alaska's Arctic Communities, Lawrence C. Hamilton, Angela M. Mitiguy
Visualizing Population Dynamics Of Alaska's Arctic Communities, Lawrence C. Hamilton, Angela M. Mitiguy
Sociology
Abstract
Arctic demography has previously been reviewed on a large scale, across the circumpolar nations. We look instead at some recent population dynamics on sub-regional to community scales, focusing on Arctic Alaska. Detailed graphics depicting yearly population changes from 1990 to 2006 in 43 selected Arctic Alaska towns and villages and all 27 of the state's "county-equivalent entities" (e.g., boroughs) have been published online in connection with two International Polar Year projects. Seemingly comparable places within the same borough have taken widely divergent paths. Birth rates generally exceed death rates, although both are high. Year-to-year and place-to-place variations are dominated …