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Sexing Capitalism: Condoms And Industrial Change, Peter Chua
Sexing Capitalism: Condoms And Industrial Change, Peter Chua
Faculty Publications, Sociology
In the late 1700s, condoms were luxury items for the affluent in Western Europe, but by the 1970s, the US government gave free condoms out to poor women in Third World areas. Moreover condom availability has increased dramatically since the global emergence of the AIDS pandemic in the 1980s, adding to the already fervent social stigmatization and political contentions on morality, sexuality, and wellbeing that condom use brings. This paper focuses on the strategically joint-relationship between manufacturing firms and governments to foster distinct profit-oriented condom social relations and moral-symbolic regimes of sexual cultures. Proposing a sex-situated theory of capitalist firms, …
Like Your Classes, Know Your Professors? Predictors Of Talented College Students’ Science And Technology Careers, James Lee, Christina Stow
Like Your Classes, Know Your Professors? Predictors Of Talented College Students’ Science And Technology Careers, James Lee, Christina Stow
Faculty Publications
In the US, there is great loss of academically talented college-level science and technology students as many decide not to follow through with their initial career choices. Following research that has implicated personal relationships in career decision-making, we study the effects of college course experiences, relationships with professors, and individual characteristics on career plans of 58 talented university students by analyzing interview data gathered in 1999. Among other things, we find that students who dropped out have few positive science course experiences and no relationships with faculty. Life sciences students report that they do not like science courses, but they …
Naccs 31st Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
Naccs 31st Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
NACCS Conference Programs
El Pueblo Unido…:Strength in Unity
March 31-April 4, 2004
The University of New Mexico
No Child Left Behind: Flowers Don’T Grow In The Desert, William T. Armaline, D Levy
No Child Left Behind: Flowers Don’T Grow In The Desert, William T. Armaline, D Levy
Faculty Publications
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No Child Left Behind: Flowers Don’T Grow In The Desert, William T. Armaline, D Levy
No Child Left Behind: Flowers Don’T Grow In The Desert, William T. Armaline, D Levy
William T. Armaline
The No Child Left Behind legislation purports to effectively eliminate the long standing “achievement gap” between poor and minority students and their white [sic.] peers.We employ a multi-method approach to investigate (1) the discursive dominance and construction of NCLB, (2) the quantitative validity of the law’s implicit causal model of educational achievement and reform, and (3) the experiences of teachers forced to negotiate the demands of NCLB in “failing” schools. Using data drawn from federal and state policy documents, U.S. Census, the State of Connecticut Department of Education, and interviews with teachers from urban schools, we find that: (1) Through …