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Occupational Segregation By Gender: A Look At The Future, Brenda Weil '92

Honors Projects

The principle purpose of this paper is to determine the prospects of reducing occupational segregation between now and 2005. This will be accomplished by exploring the barriers to occupational integration and the rate at which non-traditional job opportunities for women will become available in the future.

The continuation of occupational segregation depends upon two things: whether or not these barriers are present and to what extent, and also upon the speed with which new jobs open up in traditionally male occupations and female occupations. If opportunities in male-dominated fields expand rapidly and/or jobs in female-dominated fields expand slowly, the prospects …

An Introduction To The Five-Factor Model And Its Applications, Robert R. Mccrae, Oliver P. John

United States Public Health Resources

The five-factor model of personality is a hierarchical organization of personality traits in terms of five basic dimensions: Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, and Openness to Experience. Research using both natural language adjectives and theoretically based personality questionnaires supports the comprehensiveness of the model and its applicability across observers and cultures. This article summarizes the history of the model and its supporting evidence; discusses conceptions of the nature of the factors; and outlines an agenda for theorizing about the origins and operation of the factors. We argue that the model should prove useful both for individual assessment and for the elucidation …

Annual Report 1992, Houston Academy Of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library

Annual Reports: 1943 - Present

The file contains the annual report for the library from 1992.

The Environment And Change: Leadership And The Role Of Middle Management In A Correctional Agency, John M. Menke

Theses and Graduate Projects

Middle managers possess technical knowledge and awareness important to public policy formulation and environmental interaction, which is a predominant source of change for the organization. As an organization, Hill County Correction Departrnent's bureaucratic structure is ill-suited to respond to its complex and unstable environmen. Yet this structure is explained because HCCD is a public organization directly accountable to external bodies; its services are ambiguously defined and interpreted; and its environment hostile. This structure encourages a reactive rather than proactive position for the organization with the environment. Hierarchical structure, role obligation, and uncertainty promote risk-aversive activities by middle managers through remaining …

Narratives Of Action And Identity In Cloth: The Textiles Of Highland Luzon, The Philippines, B. Lynne Milgram

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

The textile artifact, although framed by its physical existence, is not an isolated entity, but functions as a vital part in the ongoing systems of society. By viewing the artifact as an actor with its own life history and with particular parts to play in every sphere of life's narrative, we are provided with an entry to discovering how both the textile object and the subject, its creator and user, collaborate to mutually define one another. To interpret fully the significance of textiles within their cultural context one must examine not only the artifact's physical qualities, its materials, techniques and …

Crisis Data Updates, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (1987, April 2). CAP2STAR: Optimizing CAP2 and new capacity utiliz. index (UMH) + optimizing technique [Handwritten and typed notes discussing McGraw-Hill data, capacity indices, and Federal Reserve measures]. Unpublished manuscript.

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (1986). CAP2STAR table [Computer printouts showing capacity indices and industrial production data from 1925 to 1985]. Unpublished manuscript.

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (1987, March 26). Optimizing CAP2 [Handwritten notes including equations for ΔCAP2 and UIMH]. Unpublished manuscript.

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (1987, April 2). CAP2 nonlinear L.S. estimator (Gauss) [Handwritten notes showing regression results]. Unpublished manuscript.

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (1987, March 28). Model …

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Social Wage Notes, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes.

• Soc. wage: Discussing social spending, the concept of the welfare state, and transfers between classes [Handwritten notes for Economics 205]. Shaikh, A. (1992, March 17). Unpublished manuscript.

• On the “social wage”: Discussing post-war capitalism, expansion of the state role, and transfer payments to labor, including a table on sources of workers’ consumption from 1947–1977 and critiques of Bowles and Gintis [Paper]. Shaikh, A. (1984, May). Unpublished manuscript.

• My data, social wage: Comparing labor taxes and social consumption for 1952, 1961, and 1970 [Table]. Shaikh, A. (n.d.). Unpublished manuscript.

• The estimation procedure of net …

Foreign Newspaper And Cv, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Kapitalizm sizi yutacak [Newspaper article featuring an interview with Anwar Shaikh]. Milli Gazete. (1992, July 6).

• Trip to Turkey [Handwritten itinerary notes by Anwar Shaikh, PhD]. Shaikh, A. (1992, July). Unpublished manuscript.

• Profesör Dr. Shaikh’in Türkiye konferansları… [Photocopied document in Turkish providing biographical information and announcing lectures in Ankara and Istanbul on the contemporary economic crisis]. Shaikh, A. (1992, July). Unpublished manuscript.

• Curriculum vitae [Manuscript]. Shaikh, A. (1991, Fall). Unpublished manuscript.

Current Crisis Paper, Comments, Revisions, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Shaikh, A. (1992, April). Federal fiscal, business, and consumer confidence data: Handwritten notes. Unpublished manuscript.

• Shaikh, A. (1992, December). Money stock measures, interest rates, and stock prices: Handwritten notes. Unpublished manuscript.

• Carter, A. L. (1986, September 23). How about a capital accumulation tax?: Newspaper clipping. The New York Times.

• Shaikh, A. (n.d.). Comments on “The current world economic crisis”: Handwritten and typed comments on manuscript. Unpublished manuscript.

• Shaikh, A. (1983, March). The current world economic crisis: Causes and implications (Draft 2): Paper. Unpublished manuscript.

• Shaikh, …

The Murrow Legend As Metaphor: The Creation, Appropriation, And Usefulness Of Edward R. Murrow's Life Story, Gary Edgerton

Scholarship and Professional Work - Communication

Gary Edgerton's contribution to the Journal of American Culture, Vol. 15.

Explorations In Ethnic Studies

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

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Contributors

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Notes on contributors to Explorations in Ethnic Studies, Volume 15, Issue 1, 1992

[Review Of] Raymond 1. Demallie And Douglas R. Parks. Eds. Sioux Indian Religion: Tradition And Innovation, David M. Gradwohl

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Most of the papers included in this anthology were presented in Bismarck in 1982 at a conference entitled "American Indian Religion in the Dakotas: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives." The conference was funded by the North Dakota Humanities Council and brought together a wide array of academicians and lay people representing different and sometimes conflicting experiential and philosophical points of view.

[Review Of] Sandra Cisneros. Woman Hollering Creek And Other Stories, Cortland P. Auser

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

This collection reveals Cisneros as a refreshing writer of a variety of fictional forms. Her work at times may remind readers of Chicana short fiction by Estella Portillo. Cisneros has the distinct ability of writing vividly and imaginatively in her pictorialization of Mexican American life. She creates sketches, short stories, vignettes, and descriptive "essays."

[Review Of] Elias Miguel Munoz. Crazy Love, Phillipa Kafka

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

In a supposed "interview" with Rolling Stone, Muñoz's major character, lead singer-composer Julian Toledo of Julian and the L.A. Scene, sums up Paul Simon's song "Crazy Love" as "about the love of music, about relationships ... about family." Indeed, this book takes the form of a song in which the author is simultaneously the composer and conductor orchestrating the three elements of music, relationship, and family harmonically into the text through the deployment of a dazzling grab bag of modem and postmodern authorial techniques. These include mock-ups of interviews (written) and in video format; songs seemingly printed as appendices to …

[Review Of] A. Lavonne Brown Ruoff And Jerry W. Ward, Jr., Eds. Redefining American Literary History, Hartwig Isernhagen

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

The collection by Ruoff and Ward stands within the canon discussion in American literary history, which it briefly recapitulates, placing itself in the multiculturalist camp. The first section of the four-part book can perhaps be called programmatic in just this sense: It points out how much has been overlooked among writings produced in America, and it tries to develop rationales according to which such exclusion might be rectified. Much space is here taken up by questions that concern the material and practical side of research and teaching: anthologies, MLA sessions, and the like. Much is program rather than execution, and …

[Review Of] Edith Blicksilver. The Ethnic American Woman: Problems. Protests. Lifestyle, Ann Rayson

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

The original edition of The Ethnic American Woman was published in 1978 with 381 pages. For the 1989 edition, the author has added two new sections with a total of ninety-three new pages. "Unit Thirteen: Daring To Be Different" contains sixty-three pages of fiction, poetry, and memoirs from contemporary women writers of German, Russian, Jewish, Anglo, African American, Mennonite, Italian, Chicana, Rumanian, Polish and Irish backgrounds. "Unit Fourteen: Scholarly Essays" is a particularly welcome addition of thirty pages containing essays by Evelyn Avery on blacks and Jews in the fiction of ethnic women, Caroline Dillman on the Southern woman as …

[Review Of] Richard D. Alba. Ethnic Identity: The Transformation Of White America, Phillips G. Davies

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Believing that a relatively small amount of research has been done with the ethnic identity of white Americans, Alba surveyed 524 whites in the Albany, New York, area. The majority were English, French, German, and Scottish whose forebears had been in this country for several generations. There were also numerous Irish, and among later immigrants, fairly large numbers of Italian and Polish descent.

Abstracts From The Twentieth Annual Conference, "Ethnicity And Racism In The Americas"

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Early in March participants gathered in Boca Raton, Florida, for the Twentieth Annual Conference of the National Association for Ethnic Studies. The conference theme, "Ethnicity and Racism in the Americas," provided the opportunity to examine perspectives related to the Quincentennial and the encounter among various populations in what is now collectively identified as the "Americas." Presenters discussed the impact of five hundred years of colonialism as well as the experiences of "new" immigrants, many of them from continents other than Europe.

Strategies To Increase The Number Of Minority Teachers In The Public Schools, Glenn M. Kraig

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

There can be very little argument that in recent years the teaching profession has become whiter and whiter as fewer minorities and people of color have entered and remained in the teaching profession, and as such, the percentage of white Americans in the field has continued to increase. Out of the approximately 2.3 million K-12 teachers in 1987, only 10.3 percent were minority group members. Current estimates report that by the mid 1990s this number will be further reduced to about five percent.[1] If this trend is not reversed, the teaching profession will be close to being entirely white by …

[Review Of] Leslie Marmon Silko. Almanac Of The Dead, Cortland P. Auser

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

For Leslie Marmon Silko aficionados, the "novel" may surprise them. Highly successful as a short story writer and the creator of the unusually spiritual novel Ceremony, Silko writes a tome, Dickensian in length and in the number of its dramatis personae.

[Review Of] Gretchen M. Bataille And Kathleen M. Sands. American Indian Women: A Guide To Research, Cynthia R. Kasee

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

This much needed resource is an annotated bibliography of nearly sixteen hundred works in print and on film or video. As the authors note in the "Introduction," the common fallacy is that there is little available research -- either of historic or contemporary focus -- on the topic of Native American women. This is clearly not true, as evidenced by the wealth of materials detailed in this guide.

[Review Of] E. Ellis Cashmore. Ed. Dictionary Of Race And Ethnic Relations. 2nd Ed., Alberto Pulido

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

A recurrent theme in the sociological study of racial and ethnic relations is the discipline's inability to provide a clear and focused research agenda. Scholars in the field are troubled by their inability to agree as to the nature and scope of the discipline, and hence, the lack of an all-encompassing definition for the study of racial and ethnic relations. For example, a continual semantic debate exists over the appropriate usage and application of such concepts as "race" versus "racial" in sociological discourse. The Dictionary of Race and Ethnic Relations has been developed with this concern in mind.

[Review Of] Nicolas Kanellos And Jorge A. Huerta, Eds. Nuevos Pasos: Chicano And Puerto Rican Drama, Phillipa Kafka

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

The major weakness of this text is that it is a reprint of a 1979 special edition of Revista Chicano-Riqueña. Unfortunately, both the overall introduction (a history of Spanish American, Chicano, and New York Puerto Rican theater), as well as introductions to each play (which contain biographical data, analysis, and practical suggestions for staging) does not extend beyond 1979. Also, although most illustrations are excellent, the pictorial centerfold is a crowded and confusing collage.

[Review Of] Roy Harvey Pearce. Savagism And Civilization: A Study Of The Indian And The American Mind. Rev. Ed. Of The Savages Of America, D. C. Cole

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

This classic volume on the image of the Indian in the American mind first appeared in 1953. Although both limited and incomplete, Pearce's work compelled a virtual revolution in literary and historical approaches to analysis of public view concerning the role of Indians in the American past.

[Review Of] Judith Ortiz Cofer. Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance Of A Puerto Rican Childhood, Angelo Costanzo

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

This is a rather loose collection of cuentos, or stories, by a person of two very different worlds. In the years of her youth, Judith Ortiz was shuttled between Paterson, New Jersey, and Puerto Rico. Her parents were immersed in the Spanish culture of the Caribbean tropics; but like so many other Puerto Ricans, her father left the island in the 1950s to secure a better life for his family. He joined the US Navy and spent six months of every year at the Brooklyn Navy Yard and the rest of the time at sea. When he was stationed in …

[Review Of] Laura Coltelli. Winged Words: American Indian Writers Speak, Hartwig Isernhagen

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Among the interviews in this volume, which were conducted in September 1985, some are quite important, all of them are extremely interesting, and together they form an aggregate that cannot be ignored by anyone currently working in the field, for collectively they raise a number of issues that are central to current discussions of (specifically) American Indian and (generally) "minority" literatures.

[Review Of] Ruth Pelz. Black Heroes Of The Wild West, George H. Junne Jr

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Ruth Pelz's book, illustrated by Leandro DelIa Piana, is written for elementary school children. Among the nine black heroes and heroines profiled are three women. They include the rough and tough "Stagecoach Mary Fields, the brave Biddy Mason, and the hard working Clara Brown." The men are the early explorer, Estevan; Chicago founder Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable; one of Washington State's founders, George Washington Bush; and mountain man James Beckwourth. Businessman and government leader Mifflin Gibbs and rodeo star Bill Pickett round out those featured. Some are more well-known than others, but all were important figures in the West.

[Review Of] Choong Soon Kim. Faithful Endurance: An Ethnography Of Korean Family Dispersal, Jim Schnell

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Kim's book evidences his ability to present well substantiated data using a storytelling perspective. His work is well grounded. Thirty-six pages (one fifth of the book) provide notes and bibliographic information. However, the reading is light. It is as if through his research he has prepared a fairly complex cross-cultural perspective ready for easy consumption. Again, he provides "an interpretation," but I would not call it an academic interpretation. His strength (personal familiarity with the culture being studied) is also a weakness (a predisposed bias).

[Review Of] Susheila Nasta, Ed. Motherlands: Black Women's Writing From Africa, The Caribbean And South Asia, Opal Palmer Adisa

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

In recent years writings by black women outside of the US have gained acceptance, and many such works have been included in syllabi. Motherlands provides critical, comparative analyses of several important black women (Asian women are included in this category) writing throughout the world, and as such, sets a precedent as it is probably the first such collection. Divided into three sections, Mothers/Daughters/Mother(land), the essays examine writers who have become icons, Bessie Head, Jean Rhys, Flora Nwapa, Buchi Emecheta, Nawal el Sa' adawi, Michelle Cliff, Joan Riley, Lorna Goodison, and Nayantara Sahgal. Some of the essays, however, explore use of …