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Redefining Marriage: Where To Draw The Line?, Seow Hon Tan
Redefining Marriage: Where To Draw The Line?, Seow Hon Tan
Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law
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Cocoa Farming In Ghana: Emic Experience, Etic Interpretation, Francis Danquah, Stephen K. Miller
Cocoa Farming In Ghana: Emic Experience, Etic Interpretation, Francis Danquah, Stephen K. Miller
Journal of Rural Social Sciences
This paper develops the tension between emic and etic analysis, recounting the experience of life on a cocoa farm in Ghana, from the perspective of an urban youth with familial connections to the rural community. The dual perspective of living in the city along with frequent visits to and summer sojourns on the farm provided an “outsider’s” perceptions of the rural culture. Yet even these dual emic perspectives were insufficient to bring recognition of the underlying economic realities of cocoa bean production that depended partly on migrant labor. That etic insight came later in the United Kingdom, when studying similar …
"Dirt Farmer" Vs. "Soil Scientist": Representative Tensions In The Constructed Identities Of Farmer-Writers Walter Thomas Jack And Edward H. Faulkner, Zachary Michael Jack
"Dirt Farmer" Vs. "Soil Scientist": Representative Tensions In The Constructed Identities Of Farmer-Writers Walter Thomas Jack And Edward H. Faulkner, Zachary Michael Jack
Journal of Rural Social Sciences
This extended case study of Edward Hubert Faulkner, one-time extension agent turned overnight agricultural sensation, and Walter Thomas Jack, a former Quaker schoolteacher and self-professed Iowa “dirt farmer,” and their respective, point/counterpoint soil conservation classics, Plowman’s Folly (1943) and The Furrow and Us (1946), illuminates key tensions within the fields of rural sociology and agricultural history: namely subject versus object, inside versus outside, and “peasant” versus “professional” practice as they were played out in the American popular and agricultural press from 1943 to 1948. While it is true that Plowman’s Folly, as its title implies, goads the American farmer …
John Deere Tractors And School Reform: Balancing Economies Of Scale And Quality Of Life, Stephen K. Miller
John Deere Tractors And School Reform: Balancing Economies Of Scale And Quality Of Life, Stephen K. Miller
Journal of Rural Social Sciences
Many school reform reports, many politicians, and typical media coverage attribute today’s reform efforts to the failure of the schools. We need, say critics, to return to the good old days when schools were tough and everybody learned! This essay debunks the Golden Age myth by comparing John Deere tractors to school reform. In the analogy, repeated upgrades of the old two-cylinder motor during the decade of the fifties were associated with the demise of the family farm. The new models were more powerful than the tractors they replaced, but not enough. Eventually, John Deere evolved to the new 4010 …
My Garden State: Memory, History, And The Agrarian Ideal, Michelle Gillespie
My Garden State: Memory, History, And The Agrarian Ideal, Michelle Gillespie
Journal of Rural Social Sciences
This essay examines the dynamic tension between the memory of lived experience and the formal discipline of history as it applies to the value of farm life and the importance of the agrarian ideal in American society. It analyzes the author’s memories about growing up in rural New Jersey, their critical place in her development as a scholar, and their embeddedness in her moral valuation of rural experience. Simultaneously it conveys the limits of those memories when held against critical analysis, especially in relation to the lenses of gender and race. It suggests that the longstanding appeal of the agrarian …
Small Town In Global Society, Don E. Albrecht
Small Town In Global Society, Don E. Albrecht
Journal of Rural Social Sciences
The 2007 Southern Rural Sociological Association Presidential Address: After passing through eras labeled as “Small Town in Isolation” and “Small Town in Mass Society,” it is argued that we are now entering the era of “Small Town in Global Society.” Two factors that distinguish global society from mass society are worldwide competition and the reduced relevance of location. Outcomes of the transition to global society include the increased importance of amenity resources and a major economic structure transformation. To survive and prosper in a global society will require community leaders and development specialists to understand the inherent obstacles and constraints, …
Storytelling As Narrativity: Rural Life Through The Prism Of Social Tensions, Stephen K. Miller, Zachary Michael Jack
Storytelling As Narrativity: Rural Life Through The Prism Of Social Tensions, Stephen K. Miller, Zachary Michael Jack
Journal of Rural Social Sciences
This introductory article provides purpose and rationale for this special issue of Southern Rural Sociology. The remaining six essays represent stories based on the authors’ farm experiences, crafted to explicate the tensions that underlie all of social life. Illustrating the connection between rural life and the world of ideas, the work makes explicit how the often unrecognized contradictions of everyday society are balanced through choices that typically exist at an unconscious, taken-for-granted level. Each author describes a particular dialectic. Collectively, the writers have transformed their narrative to narrativity, the formal imposition of moral purpose on storied form. Although our purpose …
A Life Lost: The Tensions Between Local Attachments And Cosmopolitan Attractions, E. Carolyn Tucker
A Life Lost: The Tensions Between Local Attachments And Cosmopolitan Attractions, E. Carolyn Tucker
Journal of Rural Social Sciences
This retrospective on a multigenerational farm family calls upon the author’s life experiences to describe the microcosm of a local rural culture. The author uses narrative to consider sense of place and the impact it exerts on native-born locals. Considering the nonmigration of an extended family of third-generation rural cousins who live and farm within 25 miles of land belonging to the family for more than a hundred years, the story contrasts local and cosmopolitan values, raises issues about attempts to “leave home,” describes the tension created when rurals try to become part of both worlds, and examines the stranglehold …
A Whistling Girl And A Crowing Hen: Changing Productivity And Gender Expectations, Cynthia Williams Resor
A Whistling Girl And A Crowing Hen: Changing Productivity And Gender Expectations, Cynthia Williams Resor
Journal of Rural Social Sciences
This paper explores two conflicts encountered by the author as she earned her Ph.D. in medieval history. First is the conflict the author feels when working on her craft—can written history be considered a credible occupation that results in something useful in contrast to the farm production of her youth? The second theme explores the tension the author encounters when challenging traditional gender roles of both farmers and historians.
Non-Resident Father Involvement And Adolescent Well- Being: Father Effects Or Child Effects?, Daniel Hawkins, Paul R. Amato, Valarie King
Non-Resident Father Involvement And Adolescent Well- Being: Father Effects Or Child Effects?, Daniel Hawkins, Paul R. Amato, Valarie King
Sociology and Anthropology Faculty Publications
Is active fathering by nonresident fathers a cause or a consequence of adolescent well- being? Past studies of nonresident father involvement have assumed a father effects model in which active parenting by fathers improves adolescent adjustment. A child effects model, in which fathers respond to levels of well-being among their adolescent offspring by becoming more or less involved parents, could also account for the positive association between active fathering and adolescent adjustment. We utilize nationally representative data from the 1995 and 1996 waves of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) to estimate the cross-lagged associations between nonresident …
Neuropathological Findings Processed By Artificial Neural Networks (Anns) Can Perfectly Distinguish Alzheimer's Patients From Controls In The Nun Study, Enzo Grossi, Massimo P. Buscema, David Snowdon, Piero Antuono
Neuropathological Findings Processed By Artificial Neural Networks (Anns) Can Perfectly Distinguish Alzheimer's Patients From Controls In The Nun Study, Enzo Grossi, Massimo P. Buscema, David Snowdon, Piero Antuono
Sanders-Brown Center on Aging Faculty Publications
BACKGROUND: Many reports have described that there are fewer differences in AD brain neuropathologic lesions between AD patients and control subjects aged 80 years and older, as compared with the considerable differences between younger persons with AD and controls. In fact some investigators have suggested that since neurofibrillary tangles (NFT) can be identified in the brains of non-demented elderly subjects they should be considered as a consequence of the aging process. At present, there are no universally accepted neuropathological criteria which can mathematically differentiate AD from healthy brain in the oldest old. The aim of this study is to discover …
Religion And Academic Achievement Among Adolescents, Benjamin Allen Mckune
Religion And Academic Achievement Among Adolescents, Benjamin Allen Mckune
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis examines the association between religiosity and academic achievement among adolescents. Recent research demonstrates a positive association between religiosity and academic success. However, some studies show that this is due to family and community factors; for example, variation in levels of family capital among religious affiliates may explain this association. Yet, whether religious factors affect academic achievement among adolescents may also be due to the concordance or discordance of religiosity among parents and their children. Using two years of data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) (n=8,051), I examine the association between adolescent religiosity, parent …
Paths Toward Impulsive Buying: The Effect Of Credit Use And Debt Avoidance On The Paths Between Money Attitudes And Impulsive Buying Among U.S. College Students, Jacob Prior Sybrowsky
Paths Toward Impulsive Buying: The Effect Of Credit Use And Debt Avoidance On The Paths Between Money Attitudes And Impulsive Buying Among U.S. College Students, Jacob Prior Sybrowsky
Theses and Dissertations
Money attitudes modeled in the home are an important part of a child's economic socialization. Although not always labeled as such, earlier literature clearly addressed this type of child learning through observation, interaction, and direct familial involvement (Rettig, 1986). Families operate as one of society's most salient economic socializing agents as they provide environments conducive to human development, information networks, role models, and grants and exchanges (Rettig, 1983). The research reported here addresses the economic socialization of children and their money attitudes as emerging adults. The current study investigated the role of money attitudes (power, anxiety, and distrust) by examining …
2007 Multicultural Development Plan, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy
2007 Multicultural Development Plan, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Resources
The appreciation, affirmation, and inclusion of multiple cultures is important to ensure that all students, faculty, and staff will be able to enjoy the educational benefits of a multicultural academic environment and that these various perspectives will also enrich the educational enterprise. From this perspective it is important that community members be effective at interacting across cultures, which is essential to IMSA’s mission of being “the world’s leading teaching and learning laboratory for imagination and inquiry , igniting and nurturing creative, ethical scientific minds that advance the human condition....” The multiple cultures that make up the IMSA community include individual …
Therapists' Perceived Influence Of Language: Second Language Spanish Speaking Therapists With Native Spanish-Speaking Clients, Cameron D. Mount
Therapists' Perceived Influence Of Language: Second Language Spanish Speaking Therapists With Native Spanish-Speaking Clients, Cameron D. Mount
Theses and Dissertations
Experiences of the bilingual client in therapy have received attention in the literature but accounts of the experience of the bilingual therapist are strikingly sparse. The purpose of this study was to focus on the bilingual therapist's perception of the impact of language on the therapeutic process. To achieve this goal, the researcher interviewed therapists who speak Spanish as a second language and work with native Spanish-speaking clients. Data analysis was completed using ethnographic research methods, which resulted in the emergence of three themes. The first theme included therapists' perceived obstacles to second-language therapy. Each of the participants in the …
Low Wages Prevalent In Direct Care And Child Care Workforce, Kristin Smith, Reagan A. Baughman
Low Wages Prevalent In Direct Care And Child Care Workforce, Kristin Smith, Reagan A. Baughman
Carsey Publications
The large-scale movement of women into the paid labor market has brought sweeping change into family life and also in who cares for the elderly and children. This brief studies workers in two low wage, predominantly female care-giving occupations plagued with high turnover, direct care workers and child care workers. It provides a better understanding of how they fare when compared with other female workers and discusses factors that contribute to their continued employment.
Interactions Among Italian Preschool-Age Children: Aggression, Victimization, And Sociometric Status, Shawna J. Marshall
Interactions Among Italian Preschool-Age Children: Aggression, Victimization, And Sociometric Status, Shawna J. Marshall
Theses and Dissertations
This study examined social interactions between Italian preschoolers based upon sociometric status groupings. The sample consisted of 267 Italian preschoolers (mean age 64 months) taken from early childhood classrooms in southern Italy. Drawing on previous research, preschoolers' physical and relational aggression and physical and relational victimization as measured by peer nominations were analyzed. Structural equation modeling using Mplus was used to test the model, and SPSS 15 was used to run analyses of variance (ANOVAs) to examine the interaction between sociometric status and preschoolers' behaviors toward peers. Findings generally support previous research with American children as well as cross-cultural research …
Session 7 - Technology And The Creation Of Wilderness: The Making Of Quabbin Reservoir, Timothy J. Farnham
Session 7 - Technology And The Creation Of Wilderness: The Making Of Quabbin Reservoir, Timothy J. Farnham
International Symposium on Technology and Society
Large dams in the United States have frequently been the targets of attacks by environmentalists who believe that the dams and the reservoirs they create are violations of wilderness. There are currently numerous proposals to dismantle some dams in order to restore river ecosystems to their pre-dam conditions, including Hetch Hetchy Reservoir’s O’ Shaunnessy Dam. Less attention has been paid to those dams and reservoirs that have arguably created protected areas that otherwise may have been subject to degradation from development. The Quabbin Reservoir, the primary water source for metropolitan Boston, serves as a prime example. Viewed as an engineering …
Impact Of Intercultural Service-Learning On Students : A Quantitative Self-Evaluation, Enrique G Oracion
Impact Of Intercultural Service-Learning On Students : A Quantitative Self-Evaluation, Enrique G Oracion
Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning 亞太地區服務研習會議
No abstract provided.
The Implementation And Learning Effects Of Service-Learning Programme To Increase The Nursing Capability Among Nursing Students, Hsing Yuan Liu, Yi Ya Chang
The Implementation And Learning Effects Of Service-Learning Programme To Increase The Nursing Capability Among Nursing Students, Hsing Yuan Liu, Yi Ya Chang
Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning 亞太地區服務研習會議
No abstract provided.
Making Service-Learning Integral To Secondary School Curriculum : The Experience Of Tsung Tsin College, Man Biu, Robin Cheung
Making Service-Learning Integral To Secondary School Curriculum : The Experience Of Tsung Tsin College, Man Biu, Robin Cheung
Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning 亞太地區服務研習會議
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An Exploration Of Knowledge-Sharing Based Study Group Via The Internet Platform : Exemplified By An Alliance Between University And Primary School, Bai Chuan Yang
Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning 亞太地區服務研習會議
No abstract provided.
Incorporating The Component Of Research In Service-Learning, Tai Shing Lau, King Fun, Charlotte Wong, Choi Har, Clare Tsang
Incorporating The Component Of Research In Service-Learning, Tai Shing Lau, King Fun, Charlotte Wong, Choi Har, Clare Tsang
Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning 亞太地區服務研習會議
No abstract provided.
The Origin And Development Of A Disciplined-Based Model Of Service Learning At One Japanese University, Linda Diane Musselwhite
The Origin And Development Of A Disciplined-Based Model Of Service Learning At One Japanese University, Linda Diane Musselwhite
Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning 亞太地區服務研習會議
No abstract provided.
Assessing The Ateneo De Manila University’S Praxis Program, Leland Joseph Dela Cruz
Assessing The Ateneo De Manila University’S Praxis Program, Leland Joseph Dela Cruz
Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning 亞太地區服務研習會議
No abstract provided.
The Impact Of The Service-Learning Program Implemented In The Dormitories At National Taiwan University On The Successful Transitions Of Freshmen, Shwu Chyong Chen, Ruo Lan Liu
The Impact Of The Service-Learning Program Implemented In The Dormitories At National Taiwan University On The Successful Transitions Of Freshmen, Shwu Chyong Chen, Ruo Lan Liu
Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning 亞太地區服務研習會議
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The Atdi Story : Community Service Learning With Application Of Professional Skills And Knowledge, Chi Kin Leung
The Atdi Story : Community Service Learning With Application Of Professional Skills And Knowledge, Chi Kin Leung
Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning 亞太地區服務研習會議
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Service-Learning Models As Pedagogy For The Schools Social Action In Asia-Pacific Region, Maria Agnes Cerina
Service-Learning Models As Pedagogy For The Schools Social Action In Asia-Pacific Region, Maria Agnes Cerina
Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning 亞太地區服務研習會議
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Travel Experiences Enhanced Through Service Learning, Denis Simond
Travel Experiences Enhanced Through Service Learning, Denis Simond
Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning 亞太地區服務研習會議
In travel, servicd learning combines tasks with structured travel activities that are linked to community service projects and/or specific organisational needs. Odyssey Travel, which has traditionally specialised in cultural and heritage programmes for over 45 years, now operates Research and Service programmes throughout the world.
Ancient Texts And Modern Education : Some Service-Learning Concepts In South Asia, Kalyan Ray
Ancient Texts And Modern Education : Some Service-Learning Concepts In South Asia, Kalyan Ray
Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning 亞太地區服務研習會議
Fundamentally different from Freudian ideas of Self which predicate much of global -- and mostly Western -- analysis of societal concerns and issues, there is a profoundly influential Asian alternative to the view of the Self. Ancient Sanskrit texts, such as the Upanishads, offer very different foci and explication of the idea of the Self, its relation to education and to each others in society, and the fundamental connection to Service-Learning. These ancient Sanskrit tests have also deeply influenced early Buddhist philosophy. Dr. Ray's presentation explores these concepts from the Taittiriya Upanishad and their influence on ideas of social connectivity …