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A Preacher's Teacher: Lessons On Ministry From One Who Proclaims The Word, Craig Mousin

Mission and Ministry Publications

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Book Review. Ordinary Resurrections: Children In The Years Of Hope By Jonathan Kozol, Michael Jenuwine, Jane E. Barden

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Quality Improvement Through Customer Satisfaction Benchmarking : Manual For Customer Satisfaction Surveys, Cheung Ming, Alfred Chan, K. H., Raymond Chan, Kwok Lit Tung, Kai Man Fung

APIAS Working Paper 工作論文

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Santeria In The Latino Community Of Los Angeles, Wendy Guandique

Whittier Scholars Program

This project is a paper that discerns and discusses some of the main features of the Santeria religion, as to answer the following questions: What is Santeria? Why do some individuals go to Catholic mass on Sunday and seek services from santeros during the week? What is the Catholic church’s view on Santeria? Research included interviews with individuals who practice Santeria as well as internet resources.

What Is A Community? Group Rights And The Constitution: The Special Case Of African Americans, Taunya Lovell Banks

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

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In Search Of A Conceptualisation Of The Term 'Community' In Metropolitan Perth, Andria W. Green

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

Communities arc dynamic, historically determined, and complex, and the topic itself has concerned social scientists for some time (Durkhcim, 1964, Weisenfeld, 1996). However, there has been an intrinsic problem in previous research arising from the ambiguity of the concept of the term 'community' itself, specifically the contradictions concerning its essential meaning. The aim of this study was to determine whether there are other ways of thinking about community without taking on any unwanted connotations of previous conceptualisations from past research. The research was based on the social constructivist paradigm and qualitative methodology was employed. Conceptualisations of the term community were …

Bulding 6 October City, Dalia Essam Wahdan

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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A Study Of Influences And Life Choices: African American Males From An Urban Pre-Trial Detention Center And The Navy, Patrick O'Neal Arnwine

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This study was designed to explore the influences, experiences, and disparate life choices of eight African American males from the Jacksonville's Pre-trial Detention Center and the U.S. Navy. The focus of this project was on the choices made by the participants and possible reasons for those choices. Specifically, the research question for this study is "How do some African American males from Jacksonville's Pre-trial Detention Center and the Navy describe their life experiences and the influences of these experiences on their choices?''

The framework for this project was a cross-case and cross-site study. The sites were the Jacksonville Pre-trial Detention …

Religiosity And Delinquency: A Test Of The Religious Ecology Hypothesis, S. Cory Harmon

Theses and Dissertations

Research testing the relationship between adolescent religiosity and delinquent behavior is inconclusive. Some studies show a significant negative relationship while others indicate no relationship. Stark (1996) asserts that the relationship between religiosity and delinquency is a function of community religiosity as opposed to personal religiosity. Thus, in areas of high religiosity, there will be a strong relationship, while areas of low religiosity will show no relationship. This study looks at the relationship between religiosity and delinquency of LDS youth in four different religious ecologies: Utah County (high religious ecology), the East coast (moderate religious ecology), the Pacific Northwest (low religious …

Islam Di Keningau : Sejarah Dan Kesannya Terhadap Budaya Perkahwinan Masyarakat Bumiputera Kadazandusun, Siti Suriyani Sulaiman

Student Works (2000-2009)

SJTI SURIYANI BINTI SULAJMAN. Islam In Keningau : The History And The Effect To The Marriage Culture Of The Kadazandusun Bumiputera Community. Thesis, Kuala Lumpur : University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2001. Information of the arrival of Islam in Sabah is not sufficient, likewise the history of Islam in Keningau is not definite. Based on the information from reliable sources, Islam was spread after the World War Two. Although Islam has changed the belief of Kadazandusun Bumiputera Community, their lifestyle certainly have not change. Customs and prohibition arc assimilated with Islamic way. To see the effect of the arrival …

Masyarakat Temiar Dan Perubahan : Kajian Kes Di Rancangan Pengumpulan Semula Orang Asli, Kuala Betis, Gua Musang, Kelantan, Noraini Awang Mat

Student Works (2000-2009)

The aims of this research were to find out social changes among the Temiar community at Resettlement of Orang Asli in Kuala Betis, Gua Musang Kelantan. There arc many negative assumption about orang Asli but they become very important during emergency because of this country treated by communist. The earlier development planned by government were to prevent communist from spreading within orang Asli. When emergency was ended and PKM were surrendered the government paid attention to the orang Asli's welfare. It is going on with the existing of Dasar Panduan Tugas Pembangunan Orang Asli Di Dalam Masyarakal Malaysia Moden. The …

Wage Discrimination Against Working Women, Sarah M. Ganasegeram

Student Works (2000-2009)

This research generally sets out to study wage discrimination against working women. Specifically, the study has three objectives. First, it examines sex-role stereotypes resulting from a colonial background, as a cause of wage discrimination. Second, the study explores gender-related job segregation existing in government policies, as a cause of wage discrimination. Lastly, it examines gender differences in human capital resulting from lack of access to education, as a cause of wage discrimination against working women. The study uses legal research methodology. The nature of this method incorporates advocacy and persuasion. Case studies based of decided equal pay claim cases are …

Tanggapan Kakitangan Perkhidmatan Awam Terhadap Prinsip-Prinsip Pengurusan Islam, Azlina Abdul Aziz

Student Works (2000-2009)

Sistem pengurusan Islam tertegak di atas paradigma Tauhid yang diasaskan kepada beberapa prinsip utama. la merupakan satu model yang unggul kerana mampu membawa setiap individu ke arah ketaqwaan dan keimanan kepada Allah s.w.t selaras dengan tujuan hakiki manusia itu diciptakan. Atas keyakinan ini, maka seharusnya prinsip pengurusan Islam ini diaplikasikan secara total dalam organisasi bagi memastikan penghayatan konsep khalifah dalam segala tugas dan gerakkerja yang dilakukan. Di Malaysia, kerajaan telah mengambil pelbagai langkah untuk memasukkan elemen-elemen Islam dalam pengurusan. Namun begitu, kerana terdapatnya kelemahan-kelemahan dari segi pertaksanaan dan penerimaannya, maka tidak dapat dinafikan bahawa masalah pengurusan masih terus kedengaran. Dalam …

Kajian Keberkesanan Dasar Anti Dadah Malaysia, Ismail Haji Ahmad

Student Works (2000-2009)

The Study reveals new important findings about the effectiveness of Malaysian Anti-Drug Policy. Based on the two levels of analysis; the policy itself and the surveyed respondents, the study shows that drug problem remain critical due to the lack of enforcement and rehabilitation. This resulted in the rise of the drug addiction and trafficking cases over the last five years (1996-2000). The newly established anti drug agencies failed, relative to their predecessors, to curtail such problems. Rehabilitation programmes which largely focused 0n new addicts provided greater room for the hardcore addicts to have a direct contact with the potential addicts …

Pemikiran Orang Asli Tentang Agama : Suatu Kajian Khusus Di Perkampungan Orang Asli Broga, Hulu Langat, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Mohd Nizam Sahad

Student Works (2000-2009)

This dissertation discusses about Orang Asli's thought concerning religion with specifically focusing on Orang Asli Temuan at Broga, where they can be divided into three groups which are Muslims, Christian and Animist. The rationale of this research is to provided Muslim dai' an information about Orang Asli Temuan religion and beliefs and also their customs and taboo which can be used by dai' to approach Orang Asli in their Islamic missionary efforts. This dissertation contains four chapters and is preceded by an Introduction and ended by a Conclusion. The Introductory part is a general discussion of the dissertation. The First …

The Impact Of Globalization On International Migration : Challenges For Human Capital Migration In Developing Countries, Yunxiao Chen

Student Works (2000-2009)

This article describes and assesses the latest information on international migration in the context of a global economy, examines the links between international migration and growth, emphasizes the impact of globalization of capital movement and trade as well as the emergence of regional economic cooperation mechanism on migration. This study gathered comparable information on human capital migration, analyzes the cause of migration. and the profound changes globalization have made in the structure, incentives, forms of financial and commercial flows and the labor market, and to further see how modem migration paths are developing. The dynamics, economic impact of migration and …

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My Danish Background, Waldemar Westergaard

The Bridge

Editor's Note: This essay brought back fond memories for me, because I had the opportunity, some forty years ago, to meet Professor Waldemar Westergaard (1882-1963) in his pension in Store Kongensgade, near Kongens Nytoro in Copenhagen. It was the summer of 1962. My graduate school advisor, Professor Lawrence D. Steefel, was an old friend of his and recommended me to him. Professor Westergaard was eighty years of age but full of energy, charm, and good stories. He gave me the names of all kinds of people to contact in Copenhagen. The cordiality and intellectual acumen that characterize the following memoir …

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The Relationship Between The Family Of Origin Processes And Attitudes Towards Marriage And The Likelihood To Divorce Among College Students, Alison Valerian

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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The Effects Of Individual Factors On Punitive Attitudes Toward Juvenile Offenders, Jennifer Keely Mac Connell

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationship between individual factors and punitive attitudes toward juvenile offenders. The individual factors examined were attributional style, authoritarianism, anxiety, self-esteem, the Five-Factor model of personality, and gender. It was hypothesized that possessing a punitive attributional style, maintaining authoritarian beliefs, and being male would predict punitive attitudes toward adolescent offenders. I also examined the effects of age of the offender and severity of the crime on attributions and punishment decisions. College students (N = 185) at a Midwestern university completed questionnaire packets in partial fulfillment of their introductory psychology course requirements. …

Sport And Society, Robert Washington, David Karen

Sociology Faculty Research and Scholarship

Despite its economic and cultural centrality, sport is a relatively neglected and undertheorized area of sociological research. In this review, we examine sports' articulation with stratification issues, especially race, class, and gender. In addition, we look at how the media and processes of globalization have affected sports.We suggest that sports and cultural sociologists need to attend more closely to how leisure products and practices are produced and distributed and how they intersect with educational, political, and cultural institutions. We propose the work of Bourdieu andthe new institutionalism to undergird future research.

Adolescent Development In The Context Of Canadian-Chinese Immigrant Families, Ching Man Lam

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

This study investigates the developmental processes and outcomes of Canadian-Chinese adolescents in families who had immigrated from Hong Kong to the Toronto, Canada area between seven and fifteen years previously. In-depth qualitative interviews with nineteen adolescents, between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one, and ten parents were conducted between February and August 1997. The study's results describe the dynamic interplay of culture and migration that shapes the developmental processes and outcomes of adolescence in Canadian-Chinese Hong Kong immigrant families. The results also address the meanings constructed by the parents and the adolescents as a result of their experiences. Studies show …

Shoes And Steel : Dependency Deindustrialization And Its Relationship To Community Strain In Portsmouth, Ohio 1970-1999, Dan Shope

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

Portsmouth, Ohio, is an Appalachian city with a long history as a member of the U.S. manufacturing production hierarchy with a large working class population. Its largest manufacturing employers were shoe and steel companies. Historically, Portsmouth depended on manufacturing jobs for its economic survival. During the late 3 I 970s and early 1980s, Portsmouth's manufacturing base was diminished due to the deindustrialization process. This structural transformation affected the total population involved in the manufacturing jobs and yielded a city that depended on outside forces for its economic livelihood. Portsmouth moved into a state of dependent deindustrialization and community strain. When …

Social Logic As Business Logic: Guanxi, Trustworthiness And The Embeddedness Of Chinese Business Practices, Wai Keung Chung, Gary Hamilton

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

This chapter explores the nature of Chinese business practices by looking at their social foundations. We argue that the use of an inter-subjective logic based on the norms of social relationships provides an institutional foundation for economic transactions in Chinese business settings. The logic of social relationships-or what we call guanxi logic-is embedded in daily practices of the Chinese business community. Rather than making economic decisions less "economic", relational rules embedded in guanxi places interpersonal business transactions within a prescriptive framework, thereby increasing the calculability of economic outcomes. Guanxi logic is, therefore, a socially meaningful way to enhance economic rationality. …

Perceptions Of Prison Guards By Prison Visitors And Nonvisitors, Frances N. Huber

Masters Theses

Social interaction has been found to be a large factor in the recidivism of criminals. Many prison inmates have limited access to social interaction with other inmates as well as those outside of prison. This creates tension between inmates, guards, and society. The breakdown of barriers to open communication between inmates and others may be beneficial to the rehabilitation of criminals. Providing more access to visitations, telephone calls, and electronic mail reduces inmate aggression and encourages compliance to the prison and social rules. In addition, interaction with those outside of the prison acts as a continual reminder to an inmate …

From Olden To Golden: A Historical Analysis Of Perceptions Of Aging, Megan Elizabeth Sherrard

Masters Theses

As we enter the twenty-first century, issues of aging and the aged are becoming more prominent in scholarly literature due to advances in medical technology that enable more individuals to live to old age, increasing the proportion of elderly in society. This study examines the social construction of "old age" as it has been perceived historically. Using burial records from a large cemetery located in central Illinois, this thesis compares all cases said to have died of "old age" or "senility" to all cemetery cases in the same age range that died of causes other than "old age" or "senility." …