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If You Knew The End Of The Story, Would You Still Want To Hear It?: The Importance Of Narrative Time For Mental Health Care, Vicki Saunders, Juanita Sherwood, Kim Usher

The Qualitative Report

The origins of this paper lie in our experiences of having heard too many stories with the same outcome or ending in the field of inquiry and practice described as “Aboriginal Mental Health.” This paper was written in an attempt to make sense of these experiences. It does so by focussing on another type of outcome or story ending in mental health care/research contexts more widely known as [Recovery]. Not to be confused with the term recovery as it is used in addiction studies, the concept of [Recovery] currently underpinning mental health care policies and reform is at once a …

Accommodations In The College Setting: The Perspectives Of Students Living With Disabilities, Lorna C. Timmerman, Thalia M. Mulvihill

The Qualitative Report

Using a critical interpretive framework, the authors utilized semi-structured interviews to understand the experiences and perceptions of two college students living with disability concerning their use of accommodations, modifications, and adaptations in program requirements, classroom instruction, and testing. The central research questions were: “Are accommodations perceived as effective in supporting students with disabilities in their academic and social pursuits? Do students perceive that accommodations allow them maximum engagement and participation in their educational experiences?” and “To what extent are accommodations perceived by the participants as leveling the playing field for students with disabilities?” And, finally, “What do the participants perceive …

Small Doses, Sabrina Cherry

The Qualitative Report

In Sweetwater (2013), Robin M. Boylorn presents an intricate look at the lives of rural, Black women. The author weaves in her own story as she details the day-to-day struggles, negotiations and realities of living in a small town while being Black, poor, and female. This review attempts to provide praise for Boylorn’s work, while also offering critiques and further considerations.

Life Is Calling ... How Far Will You Go ... Back In The Closet? Identity Negotiation And Management Among Queer, Peace Corps Volunteers, Kate Elizabeth Slisz

Theses and Dissertations

There is little to no research surrounding the experiences of queer, foreign-aid workers. To address this gap, a study was conducted to explore how compulsory heterosexuality affects the social construction of sexuality in societies where queer, foreign-aid workers serve and how this influences their identity negotiation and management processes. Participants consisted of ten self-identified queer, Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCVs), as well as, the researcher herself who also identifies as queer. Data was gathered through both semi-structured interviews and autoethnographic research. Meaning structuring through narratives was used to analyze the data. Analysis revealed that strategies of silencing, counterfeiting, and lying …

Framing A Program Evaluation Study: Sociological Practice And The Generalized Empirical Method., Anthony L. Haynor, Todd J. Stockdale

Praxis Presentations

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On The Prospect Of A Cognitive Sociology Of Law: Recognizing The Inequality Of Contract, Michael W. Raphael

Graduate Student Publications and Research

One of the few basic premises that sociological analysis assumes is a general answer to the question of how society is organized according to some sort of agreement or contract. Elucidating how this question is still unsettled requires an exploration of how several prominent thinkers have considered what the basis for society is and how it is related to justice founded in the cognitive sociological basis of individuality. Drawing on the cognitive and cultural turn, this critique offers a revision of the structure-agency problem and examines the implications for a sociological conception of freedom and a corresponding concept of causation …

Exploring South Dakota Data Online, Mary Killsahundred

South Dakota Demography Conference

Explore South Dakota data tools focusing on the Census’ interactive population feature On The Map and fun tips on how to use on the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the American Indian Labor Force Report online tool.

Understanding Census Data For Rural Areas, Kim Davis

South Dakota Demography Conference

ow is data for the American Community Survey collected and applied to rural places like South Dakota? Participants will be shown how to access multiple levels of ACS data.

Fearless Friday: Beau Charles, Christina L. Bassler

SURGE

In this week’s Fearless Friday, SURGE would like to feature the wonderful Beau Charles ’17!

Beau Charles is currently a junior at Gettysburg and is majoring in English while minoring in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Africana Studies. They’re originally from nearby Lancaster, Pennsylvania. [excerpt]

Sd Kids Count, Carole Cochran

South Dakota Demography Conference

Discussion on the collection, display, and dissemination of South Dakota Kids Count Data and how it helps measure the opportunities and challenges facing children and youth in the state.

The Changing Demography Of South Dakota, Weiwei Zhang

South Dakota Demography Conference

Dr. Zhang talks about the latest research on population composition and diversity in South Dakota with an eye to emerging trends.

The Power To Change Projections: A New Resident Recruitment Process, Sdsu Extension

South Dakota Demography Conference

Marketing Hometown America provides communities with a proactive process to reverse population decline and to recruit new residents.

Understanding Relative Incomes And Wages, Mark Boehm

South Dakota Demography Conference

Making the case for South Dakota gets easier with GOED’s national wage calculator.

Business Builder: The Newest Tool From The Us Census, Weiwei Zhang

South Dakota Demography Conference

With this new tool from the Census, business owners and entrepreneurs can design strategies for success.

Our Cities As Economic Engines, Sid Gross, Ryan Sougstad, Eric John Abrahamson

South Dakota Demography Conference

Focusing on newly released data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, Sougstad and Abrahamson unpack the trends and look at Rapid City and Sioux Falls in the context of the northern Great Plains region.

Dave Sprout Second Interview, 2015, Jennifer Thomson

Bucknell: Occupied

Jennifer Thomson, assistant professor of History at Bucknell University, interviews Dave Sprout of the Lewisburg Prison Project. Thomson and Sprout follow up on their March 2015 discussion about the use of force in the Special Management Unit (SMU) of the United States Penitentiary, Lewisburg. Sprout discusses the futility of the program, which involves the lock down of men without any activities or opportunities to engage with the world around them. He describes conditions and raises concern about the psychological impact of punitive social control.

Message From The President (Of Bsu), Ja'nai Harris

SURGE

Last night as a couple of my friends scrambled to find a classroom to do work in, they came across a poster that has been plastered all around campus for weeks now. This poster, however, was different. This poster was vandalized. The face of this year’s 10th Annual Derrick K. Gondwe Memorial Lecture, Opal Tometi, had been ripped off and the word “Black” was crossed out and replaced with the word “All.” This changed the quote from “Black Lives Matter” to “All Lives Matter.” [excerpt]

Resources And Reminders, Pamoja Editors

Pamoja

Campus and community resources for people in need of support and guidance in situtations involving interpersonal violence. Also, posters from Kennesaw State University student organizations.

Sexual Assault & Our Ineffective Solidarity, Earnest Aaron

Pamoja

Article.

Knuckles, Devyn Springer

Pamoja

Poetry.

Push, Carlynn Sharpe

Pamoja

Art.

The Ritual Of Breaking, Anonymous -

Pamoja

Poetry.

Coercion Is Not Consent, Jessica Fisher

Pamoja

Article.

Yesterday, Sarah Barnett

Pamoja

Photography.

Names You Gave Me, Carlynn Sharpe

Pamoja

Poetry.

On Saving Kids From 'Broken Hearts' & Teaching Kids About Consent, James Monroe

Pamoja

Article.

Stop, Stormy Kage

Pamoja

Poetry.

Cigarette Scars, Devyn Springer

Pamoja

Poetry.

Entitlement & Sexual Assault, Carlynn Sharpe

Pamoja

Article.

Mine, Carlynn Sharpe

Pamoja

Poetry.