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Using Social Construction Theory As A Foundation For Macro-Level Interventions In Communities Impacted By Hiv And Addictions, David Allen Patterson, Robert H. Keefe

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Many professionals working with people living with HIV and alcohol and other drug addictions rely heavily on micro and mezzo-level interventions. The authors argue that although these approaches are effective for helping people living with some social problems they are too narrow for working effectively with HIV-positive and alcohol and other drug-addicted individuals. The authors use social construction theory to analyze the social problems of HIV/AIDS and addictions and make recommendations for macro-level interventions that may help curtail the dual problems of HIV and addictions.

Review Of Working Mothers And The Welfare State: Religion And The Politics Of Work-Family Policies In Western Europe And The United States. Kimberly J. Morgan. Reviewed By Katherine Van Wormer., Katherine Van Wormer

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Book review of Kimberly J. Morgan. Working Mothers and the Welfare State: Religion and the Politics of Working-Family Policies in Western Europe and the United States. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006. $22.95 papercover.

Review Of Good Kids From Bad Neighborhoods: Successful Development In Social Context. Delbert S. Elliott, Scott Menard, Bruce Rankin, Amanda Elliott, William Julius Wilson And David Huizinga. Reviewed By Stephanie Cosner Berzin., Stephanie Cosner Berzin

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Book review of Delbert S. Elliot, Scott Menard, Bruce Rankin, Amanda Elliot, William Julius Wilson and David Huizinga. Good Kids from Bad Neighborhoods: Successful Development in Social Context. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. $80.00 hardcover, $30.99 papercover.

Review Of Polarized America: The Dance Of Ideology And Unequal Riches. Nolan Mccarty, Keith T. Poole And Howard Rosenthal. Reviewed By Joel Blau, Joel Blau

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Book review of Nolan McCarty, Keith T. Poole, and Howard Rosenthal. Polarized America: The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2006. $35.00 hardcover, $18.00 papercover.

Review Of Biomedicalization Of Alcohol Studies: Ideological Shifts And Institutional Challenges. Lorraine T. Midanik. Reviewed By E. Michael Gorman., Bart Grossman

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Book review of Peter Schrag. California: America's High Stakes Experiment. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2006. $24.95 hardcover, $16.95 papercover.

Review Of California: America's High Stakes Experiment. Peter Schrag. Reviewed By Bart Grossman., Edward Cohen

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Book review of John Gerring. Case Study Research: Principles and Practices. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. $70.00 hardcover, $24.99 papercover.

Review Of Long Range Public Investment: The Forgotten Legacy Of The New Deal. Robert D. Leighninger. Reviewed By James Midgley., James Midgley

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Book review of Robert D. Leighninger. Long Range Public Investment: The Forgotten Legacy of the New Deal. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2007. $ 24.95 papercover.

Jobs Aren't Enough: Towards A New Economic Mobility For Low-Income Families. Roberta Rehner Iverson And Annie Laurie Armstrong., James Midgley

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Book note for Roberta Rehner Iverson and Annie Laurie Armstrong. Jobs Aren't Enough: Towards a New Economic Mobility for Low- Income Families. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2006. $74.50 hardcover, $26.95 papercover.

The Other Philadelphia Story: How Local Congregations Support Quality Of Life In Urban America. Ram A. Cnaan With Stephanie C. Boddie, Charlene C. Mcgrew And Jennifer Kang., Kristine Frerer

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Book note for Ram A. Cnaan with Stephanie C. Boddie, Charlene C. McGrew and Jennifer Kang. The Other Philadelphia Story: How Local Congregations Support Quality of Life in Urban America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. $69.95 hardcover.

The State After Statism: New State Activities In The Age Of Liberalization. Jonah D. Levy, Editor., James Midgley

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Book note for Jonah D. Levy, Editor. The State after Statism: New State Activities in the Age of Liberalization. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. $55.00 hardcover, $24.95 papercover.

Contesting Communities: The Transformation Of Workplace Charity. Emily Barman., Sara E. Kimberlin

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Book note for Emily Barman. Contesting Communities: The Transformation of Workplace Charity. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006. $53.00 hardcover, $20.95 papercover.

Child Soldiers: From Violence To Protection. Michael Wessells., David K. Androff

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Book note for Michael Wessells, Child Soldiers: From Violence to Protection. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. $45.00 hardcover.

Health And Work Productivity: Making The Business Case For Quality Health Care. Ronald C. Kessler And Paul E. Stang, Editors.

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Book note for Ronald C. Kessler and Paul E. Stang (Eds.), Health and Work Productivity: Making the Business Case for Quality Health Care. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2006. $35.00 hardcover.

Pre-Test Assessment, Thomas Berry

College of Business Faculty and Staff Works

Pre-tests are a non-graded assessment tool used to determine pre-existing subject knowledge. Typically pre-tests are administered prior to a course to determine knowledge baseline, but here they are used to test students prior to topical material coverage throughout the course. While counterintuitive, the pre-tests cover material the student is not expected to know, but serve as a motivational tool and a road map for the students, resulting in improved course performance.

Gender, Race, And Intersectionality On The Federal Appellate Bench., Todd Collins, Laura Moyer

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

While theoretical justifications predict that a judge’s gender and race may influence judicial decisions, empirical support for these arguments has been mixed. However, recent increases in judicial diversity necessitate a reexamination of these earlier studies. Rather than examining individual judges on a single characteristic, such as gender or race alone, this research note argues that the intersection of individual characteristics may provide an alternative approach for evaluating the effects of diversity on the federal appellate bench. The results of cohort models examining the joint effects of race and gender suggest that minority female judges are more likely to support criminal …

Teachers Who Left The Teaching Profession: A Qualitative Understanding, Lisa Gonzalez, Michelle Stallone Brown, John R. Slate

The Qualitative Report

In this study, the researchers investigated public school teacher attrition in the State of Texas. The study examined the problem by focusing on the predominant reasons teachers give for leaving the profession after working only one year as a teacher. Eight persons who had left the teaching profession after one year teaching were contacted and interviewed concerning their reasons for leaving. The three most influential factors found were lack of administrative support, difficulties with student discipline, and low salary levels. Study findings and implications for policy are discussed.

Madhubani Art: A Journey Of An Education Researcher Seeking Self-Development Answers Through Art And Self-Study, Kavita Mittapalli, Anastasia P. Samaras

The Qualitative Report

This study is situated within a self-study research methods course to scaffold doctoral students’ explorations of the intersections of their culture, and research interests using arts as a tool. Embracing the arts as a research method, the first author painted a self-portrait using the vibrant colors of Madhubani art which holds cultural significance to her. She utilized Blumer’s (1986) and Mead’s (1934) theory of symbolic interactionism to explain the process of her self-development as a researcher. Combining her self-portrait with an earlier research study proved valuable as a conduit for understanding and interpreting her work as a research methodologist. This …

First Love: A Case Study In Quantitative Appropriation Of Social Concepts, Diederik F. Janssen

The Qualitative Report

Peer love is a highly invested autobiographical marker, and its scientific ascent can be studied in terms of its literature’s motives, stated objectives, exclusions, and delimitations. In this article an overview of numeric and selected ethnographic data on the timing of “first love” is presented, to inform an assessment of the ontological underpinnings of milestone research common to quantitative sociology and developmental psychology. Complicating scientific normalization of love’s initiatory connotation, selected ethnographic observations on the timing and notion of early/first love in non-Western societies are presented. These observations facilitate a critique of love as a heterosocial, propaedeutic event, and hence, …

Using Technology To Enhance Qualitative Research With Hidden Populations, John Matthews, Elizabeth P. Cramer

The Qualitative Report

Advances in technology provide researchers with increased opportunities to locate and conduct research with populations that have historically been inaccessible. This manuscript de scribes the development of private, voluntary web-based groups, and the process for using web cameras to conduct individual web-based interviews as a method of data collection in qualitative research. Also contained within are detailed steps for utilizing each of these technological innovations as well an exploration of the ethical issues related to using technology to enhance the research experience with members of hidden populations, using the GLBT population as a referent group.

Exile: Why The Human Rights Council Will Not Work, Daniel J. Graeber

Human Rights & Human Welfare

The Economist writes in an April 24th edition that the U.N.’s Human Rights Council, the predecessor to the sixty-year-old U.N. Commission on Human Rights, is a “one-sided Israeli-bashing” organization. The Economist argues that the inclusion of second- and third-tier countries from the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) and the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) makes it a forum for targeting offenses committed by the Israeli government against the Palestinian people.

Christina M. Cerna On Truth And Reconciliation In South Africa, Did The Trc Deliver? Edited By Audrey R. Chapman And Hugo Van Der Merwe. Philadelphia: University Of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. 346 Pp., Christina M. Cerna

Human Rights & Human Welfare

A review of:

Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa, Did the TRC Deliver? Edited by Audrey R. Chapman and Hugo van der Merwe. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. 346 pp.

Stephen James On The Battle For Welfare Rights: Politics And Poverty In Modern America By Felicia Kornbluh. Philadelphia: University Of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. 287pp., Stephen James

Human Rights & Human Welfare

A review of:

The Battle for Welfare Rights: Politics and Poverty in Modern America by Felicia Kornbluh. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. 287pp.

Information Outlook, June 2008, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2008

Volume 12, Issue 6

Portrayal Of Characters With Mental Disabilities In Egyptian Films: A Content Analysis On Egyptian Feature Films Produced 1950s-2000s, Reem Amr Abdelhamid

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Regional Integration, Capital Investment And The Cultural Content Of Egyptian Tv: The Case Of Mbc And Otv, Sahra Gemeinder

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Retaliatory Measures As Sanctions Under The World Trade Organization, Mohamed Elshahat Adly El-Yamany

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Uses And Gratifications Of Webloggers In Egypt, Mona Munir El-Hefnawi

Archived Theses and Dissertations

Since its entrance in Egypt, blogs have had a powerful effect on the political, social, and economic aspects in Egypt. To be able to measure those effects, it is important to know the intentions of those Egyptian bloggers. This study applies the uses and gratifications theoretical framework to this notion of blogging. As it is based on a survey which attempts to examine and explore the different uses and gratifications of blogging in Egypt. This involves why different people with different demographic characteristics actually decide to blog and what needs they seek to gratify. Independent variables studied were age, gender, …

Employing Humor Appeal In Egyptian Tv Commercials: A Content Analysis On Ramadan And Non Ramadan Advertising Campaigns, Rana Saad Hassan

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Impact Of Fatawa El-Jihad On Users Of Islamonline.Net, Hanaa Ahmed Marie

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Agenda Setting Of Arabic Related Content On German Tv: A Content Analysis On Deutsche Welle Tv Arabia, Nadine Abdel Latif Rashwan

Archived Theses and Dissertations

In today's media, international broadcasting is a tool to communicate with a world wide audience. Most of the networks, especially those that are linked with their country's government, try to use their international channels to deliver national policy or want to convey certain important factors of their home culture to nations all over the world e.g. language.

The question of broadcast content is a very controversial issue. That is why in this thesis the researcher has focused on the content of the German TV network Deutsche Welle TV Arabia in order to analyze what kind topics the channel focuses on …