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Work Role Vs. Familial Roles: Management Of Work And Family Responsibilities Among Blue-Collar Chicana And Mexican Immigrant Women In The Lower Rio Grande Valley Apparel Industry, Maria Olivia Villarreal-Solano

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

This qualitative study examined how a select group of forty Chicana and Mexican immigrant women employed as apparel production workers in the Lower Rio Grande Valley manage work and family responsibilities. Data were gathered through in-depth interviews. The interviews were conducted over a one year period in the county of Hidalgo, Texas. This study identified two processes used by women in managing work and family. Age and the timing of life events were found to have the greatest influence on the process of managing work and family responsibilities among the studied women. Ethnicity, contrary to existing explanatory models, was not …

Mexican Elites In The United States: An Introductory Investigation Of Privileged Mexicans In South Texas, Maria Elena Elias De Mounce

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

Privileged Mexicans--first generation elite Mexican immigrants living in the United States-Mexican border--are herein described in terms of their cultural capital. Levels of assimilation are explored. A greater knowledge of this group, not yet fully appreciated in the literature, may advance sociological knowledge in a transitional region. The sample comprises wealthy, professional business people, architects, physicians, academicians, socialites, writers, artists and their families. Facilitated through interviews in Spanish, participant observation, and a detailed questionnaire, the study examines their attitudes toward South Texas, toward Mexican Americans, and evaluates the process of their integration into the community. Questions focus on religion, education, language, …

Parent Involvement Typologies And Student Achievement: A Correlational Study Of The Overlapping Spheres Of Influence, Phillip J. Elliott

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to explore the relationships between six types of parent involvement and student achievement. These typologies included parenting, communicating, volunteering, learning at home, decision making, and collaborating with community. Four research questions guided the study and nine null hypotheses were formulated and tested at the level of significance. The degree of relationship between the independent variables, parent involvement typologies, and student achievement were analyzed by utilizing Spearman's rho correlation coefficient, Pearson's product-moment correlation, and multiple regression analysis. The study sample consisted of 627 elementary and middle school parents in Mitchell County, North Carolina. The results …

Cultural Orientations

Border Life Collection

Typed essay. Topics covered in this essay are: Mexican culture, religion, discrimination.

Understanding Latino Ethnic Identity Development: A Review Of Relevant Issues, Azara Rivera-Santiago

New England Journal of Public Policy

One of the most promising areas in cross-cultural psychology is the development of identity among various ethnic groups in the United States. This article has a twofold purpose. First, it offers the concept of ethnic identity as defined and studied within the social sciences — sociology, anthropology, and psychology — including a review of some of the recent work on ethnic identity development proposed by leading investigators in the field of psychology. The author discusses their generalizability across ethnic groups. Second, it presents a number of dimensions considered important in conceptualizing and studying Hispanic ethnic identity development. These include acculturation, …

Reflexive Law, Civil Society, And Negative Rights, Andrew Arato

Cardozo Law Review

Jurgen Habermas has remained faithful to the heritage of Critical Theory-to the method and perspective of imminent social criticism. His concept of "paradigm" is fully intelligible only in context of such background. It means, first and foremost, enlightenment concerning a given society with a normative project in mind-in the present case, the actualization of the system of rights. Thus, a paradigm is a form of diagnosis, based on the rational reconstruction of forms of consciousness, filtered and synthesized into theory, that seeks to orient action. At all points, the construction of paradigms refers to a social totality which is subjected …

Against Subordination: Morality, Discourse, And Decision In The Legal Theory Of Jurgen Habermas, William Rehg

Cardozo Law Review

This reflection explores the manner in which Jurgen Habermas's Between Facts and Norms establishes a relationship between law (or legal procedures) and an idealized conception of rational practical discourse. Part I of this Article spells out a problem that arises if one subordinates law to such idealizations of practical reason; here I will argue that the subordination of law to morality is part of a larger problem that one does not escape simply by analyzing law in the broader terms of discursive justification in general. Part II pursues further the question of whether Habermas's legal theory escapes this difficulty, turning …

Toward An Interparadigmatic Dialogue On Goffman, James J. Chriss

Sociology & Criminology Faculty Publications

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The Interactional Nature Of Familial Elderly Abuse: A Study In The Sociology Of Emotions, Patricia Jordan

Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects

This paper proposes that, in placing an emphasis on quantitative measurements of certain situational and relational stress factors, existing research in the field of familial elderly abuse has neglected the importance of addressing the dynamics of violent relationships. As such, the role of self-esteem in violent interaction has not only remained an elusive concept, it has necessarily been given less emphasis. Drawing upon the works of Denzin (1984, 1989), Jackson (1984), Scheff (1970, 1990a, 1990b), and Scheff and Retzinger (1991), the present study proffers an innovative, composite methodological approach for overcoming these past oversights; one which serves to complement existing …

The Young Parsons And The Mature Habermas, James J. Chriss

Sociology & Criminology Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

The Interactional Nature Of Familial Elderly Abuse: A Study In The Sociology Of Emotion, Patricia Jordan

Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects

This paper proposes that, in placing an emphasis on quantitative measurements of certain situational and relational stress factors, existing research in the field of familial elderly abuse has neglected the importance of addressing the dynamics of violent relationships. As such, the role of self-esteem in violent interaction has not only remained an elusive concept, it has necessarily been given less emphasis. Drawing upon the works of Denzin (1984, 1989), Jackson (1984), Scheff (1970, 1990a, 1990b), and Scheff and Retzinger (1991), the present study proffers an innovative, composite methodological approach for overcoming these past oversights; one which serves to complement existing …

The Politics Of Puberty: Gender Harassment In The Schools, Cynthia A. Falcone

Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects

Sexual harassment in the work place and on college campuses has been acknowledged for some time, but its prevalence in high schools and junior high schools has only recently come to light. Reports of student-to-student gender harassment by school-aged children are often dismissed as teasing. The lack of response leaves victims feeling isolated and unsafe. Gender harassment is placed on a sexual violence continuum, revealing it to be a patterned, systematic form of oppression based on gender. The effects of gender harassment, as experienced by the targets, with regard to the definition of self and autonomy are discussed. A model …

The Interactional Nature Of Familial Elderly Abuse: A Study In The Sociology Of Emotions Chapters 4-6, Patricia Jordan

Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects

This paper proposes that, in placing an emphasis on quantitative measurements of certain situational and relational stress factors, existing research in the field of familial elderly abuse has neglected the importance of addressing the dynamics of violent relationships. As such, the role of self-esteem in violent interaction has not only remained an elusive concept, it has necessarily been given less emphasis. Drawing upon the works of Denzin (1984, 1989), Jackson (1984), Scheff (1970, 1990a, 1990b), and Scheff and Retzinger (1991), the present study proffers an innovative, composite methodological approach for overcoming these past oversights; one which serves to complement existing …

The Third Generation Hypothesis And Latina/O Dating Patterns At Humboldt State University, Elizabeth Flores

Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects

Assimilation into the mainstream culture has been studied extensively. The degree of assimilation, ethnic identity, and cultural awareness varies for the first, second, and third generations of an ethnic group. In order to test these assumptions a study was conducted at the campus of Humboldt State University. Using Marcus Lee Hansen's third generation hypothesis of "what the [child] wishes to forget, the grand[child] wishes to remember", as a theoretical framework and Milton Gordon's schema of assimilation, a questionnaire was devised and administered. The sample was composed of 25 Latino males and 25 Latina females of various ages and class standings. …

Cultural Orientations

Border Life Collection

Handwritten essay. Topics covered in this essay are: Mexican American culture, Anglo culture, interview, perceptions.

Grounds Of Unconstitutionality: The Italian Case, Riccardo Guastini

Cardozo Law Review

Validity and invalidity are properties of legal rules. Both concepts refer to relationships-relationships between a given rule and the second-order rules that govern its creation and contents.

Indeed, it is a well-known feature of modern legal systems that law regulates, among other things, the creation of law itself. This amounts to saying that each legal system includes a large variety of second-order rules that govern the production of further legal rules along with "ordinary" rules of behavior, such as the rules of criminal law. Second-order rules regulate both the rule-making process and, to a certain extent, the contents of forthcoming …

Cultural Orientations

Border Life Collection

Typed essay. Topics covered in this essay are: Mexican culture, Anglo culture, and language.

Facts, Things, And The Orphans Of Girard College: Francis Lieber, Protopragmatist, Aviam Soifer

Cardozo Law Review

Rufus Choate, the dominant and domineering Boston lawyer and orator, once described Francis Lieber as "the most fertile, indomitable, unsleeping, combative and propagandizing person of his race." Lieber was indeed always scrambling, always proposing projects and looking for work, always reading and thinking and investigating. The proud inventor of words such as "penology," "bureaucracy," and "jural," Lieber delighted in terming himself a "publicist," yet another of his English neologisms. From his arrival in the United States in 1827 to his death in 1872, Lieber was a restless initiator who managed to be influential in myriad ways in his adopted land, …

The Virtues Of Interpretation In A Jural Society, Mike Robert Horenstein

Cardozo Law Review

This Essay could perhaps be titled "Why Lieber Now?": for this seems to me an unavoidable question when reviving a figure who has seemingly been lost in the archives. We encounter problems on all fronts, and just to ignore them and go about resuscitating Lieber would only provide an opportunity to quip that the operation 'was successful, though the patient died (was actually long dead). Even at the time of its publication, William Kent, Chancellor Kent's son, remarked of Lieber's Legal and Political Hermeneutics," 'What, in God's name, made you choose 'Hermeneutics'? ... Had you called your... …

Mediation: A Feminist Inquiry, Nell J. Damon

Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects

Feminist academicians and activists have been working diligently for decades to incorporate the experience of women into existing theory and research. The field of mediation and negotiation is no exception. Mediation, a form of conflict resolution, has become a more widespread alternative to litigation in recent years. Supporters describe it as a balanced, fair, and egalitarian mode for the resolution of disputes and the construction of agreements. Disputants come to the mediation table as "equals." Power imbalances are supposedly left at the door. Mediation empowers disputants, allowing them to create agreements, while litigation requires disputants to passively accept the -judgment …

Developing An Exchange Network Simulator, Barry N. Markovsky

Faculty Publications

"X-Net" is a computer simulation that I developed in conjunction with Network Exchange Theory. Users of X-Net can explore the effects of different network structures, rules of exchange, and negotiators' strategies on the dynamics and outcomes of resource exchanges in social networks. This article recounts the process of X-Net's development, in addition to key substantive, theoretical, and design issues that motivated its form and content. It concludes with a discussion of the relationship between theory, simulation, and empirical tests.

Visions Of A Healthy Community In Alternative Health Care, Lisa H. Jackson

Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects

The American health care system is undergoing rapid change. The Clinton Administration is in the process of restructuring not only the way health care is delivered but is attempting to make access to health care more inclusive. This change will affect patients (the public), insurance companies, doctors, and the burgeoning alternative health care industry. Statistically, there is an increase in the number of people who are turning to and utilizing alternative health care as their preferred method of treatment. This thesis attempts to determine the prevalence of alternative health care use in the Arcata/Eureka area and to assess if it …

The Power Of Social Exchange: Gift Giving Vs. Economic Exchange, Shawn E. Siah

Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects

Past experimental research on the distribution of power in social networks indicated that central positions in a social network have a significant exchange advantage over peripheral positions. All of these studies have focused on economic exchange situations, in which the economic rewards are the sole basis of the exchange. These studies have not examined social exchange situations, in which the exchange of social courtesy between network positions is seen as important or more important than the economic rewards being exchanged. An experiment was designed to test a hypothesis about social exchange situations suggested by anthropological research. The hypothesis is that …

Pilot Creek: An Application And Analysis Of Alternative Dispute Resolution Methods Applied To Interaction Between The United States Forest Service And Public, Julius A. Marks

Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects

Ecosystem management demands that the United States Forest Service (U.S.F.S.) include historically excluded viewpoints in managing the forest. This project explored the use of facilitation, by a third party, to help the U.S.F.S. and interested public citizens cooperatively work together as ecosystem management plans were finalized in the Pilot Creek Drainage in Six Rivers National Forest. The objective of this project was to aid both the U.S.F.S. and the public in making new cooperative/ collaborative relationships for ecosystem management. This objective was carried out by establishing "information exchange” meetings between historical adversaries, the U.S.F.S. and prominent environmental activists. This project …

Attitudes Of Elementary Principals Toward Parent Involvement In Schools In The Commonwealth Of Virginia, Linda V. Brittle

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to identify and analyze the attitudes of principals toward parent involvement in schools. The population for the study consisted of all public school elementary principals in the Commonwealth of Virginia. A random sample procedure was employed and an instrument was developed specifically for the study. An initial and second mailing resulted in an overall response rate of 53%. Factor analysis identified 5 groupings in parent involvement. Factors were labeled: Decision-Making, Policy-Making, Home Tutor/Co-Learner, Socio-Economic Status, and Parent Desire and Expertise. Seven null hypotheses were formulated and tested for the study. It was found that …

Cultural Orientations

Border Life Collection

Typed essay. Topics covered in essay are: teenage pregnancy, discrimination, and culture.

Cultural Orientations

Border Life Collection

Typed essay. Topics covered in this essay are: religion, Mexican culture, Anglo culture, and racism.

Cultural Orientations

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Typed essay. Topics covered in this essay are: Mexican culture, and religion.

Cultural Orientations

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Cultural Orientations

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Typed essay. Topics covered in this essay are: Bullying, Harassment, Jackson Elementary, McAllen, Education, Traditions, Mexican Culture, Anglo Culture, Quinceanera.