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Alienation And Variations In Orientation To Counter Culture Values: An Empirical Study, Dennis C. Mcbride

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Alienation and variations in orientation to counter culture values were investigated in a survey of University of New Mexico undergraduates. A cumulative-type attitude scale was developed to measure orientation toward counter culture values. Dean's Alienation Scale, which combines three subscales of normlessness, powerlessness and social isolation to form a total alienation scale score, was used as a measure of subjective feelings of alienation. Results of the first order multivariate analysis show a moderate positive relationship of student's counter culture orientation to a) alienation, with normlessness and powerlessness being the strongest components, and b) peer, as opposed to parent, social approval …

Relationships Between Commitment, Dissatisfaction And Attrition Among Roman Catholic Priests In Albuquerque, New Mexico, Romeo Raymond Di Benedetto

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The motivation which led to the selection of the subject of commitment was both professional and personal. The author not only went through this process himself of commitment/decommitment to the official ministry but came to know many other such priests in his involvement with the Society of Priests For a Free Ministry. It is to the men and women of this renewal organization that this thesis is dedicated.

It is known to any "insider" of the Roman Catholic clergy that thousands of priests have long been experiencing intense and numerous frustrations. Some priests are able to satisfactorily resolve their frustrations …

The Influence Of Population Growth On Economic Development In Low Income Countries; India: An Example Of A Low Income Area, Japan: An Example Of A High Income Area, Joshua Makau Maingi

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The mid-twentieth century experienced need a rapid development of vaccines, antibiotic drug and pesticides to control disease-bearing insects. This technology, which was developed in the high income countries, has been imported to the low income countries, and this has resulted in decline of mortality. Since fertility has not declined, the low income countries are at a period of rapid population growth. This accelerating population increase in recent years in the low income countries had dramatized the need for a better understanding of it impact on social and economic development. The economic development in any given country is a process which …

Graduate Teaching Assistants:A Study Of Exploitation And Conflict In Higher Education, Lynda Hundertmark

Sociology ETDs

Since the post-war years of the late 1940's and early 50's, graduate teaching assistants have played an increasingly important role in public higher education. They are now an integral and essential part of undergraduate instruction of these institutions; but they are also important to the universities' obligations for research and public service. Where they are not directly responsible for instructional duties, they have relieved faculty members of most of the routine duties associated with teach­ing, freeing them for responsibilities which are considered more important for today's society.

Yet, even while assistants are performing many duties once reserved for faculty alone, …