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The Cedar Grove Community In Oral Folk History, Ada Parker Aug 1975

The Cedar Grove Community In Oral Folk History, Ada Parker

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The thesis was originally done for the Center for Intercultural & Folk Studies which no longer exists.


The Beeson Farmstead: A Study Of The Functional Aspects Of A Black Farm In The Richland Community, Annelen Archbold Aug 1974

The Beeson Farmstead: A Study Of The Functional Aspects Of A Black Farm In The Richland Community, Annelen Archbold

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This study documents the lifestyle on a small, prosperous black farmstead in the Richland community of Butler County, Kentucky. It is based on extensive fieldwork and interviews conducted with Percy Beeson, owner of the farm for aver fifty years. The result of the fieldwork and interviews was the documentation of how this farmstead, maintained without mechanical farm equipment, worked as a functional unit on a year-round basis.

As a functional unit, the Beeson farmstead is described in terms of the Beeson family and their ownership of the farm and the breakdown of the property into two dependent units. In the …


Labor Force Participation And Employment Status In Connecticut, 1970, Kenneth Hadden May 1974

Labor Force Participation And Employment Status In Connecticut, 1970, Kenneth Hadden

Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station

No abstract provided.


Residential Mobility Of The Population Of Connecticut, 1965-70, Kenneth Hadden Apr 1974

Residential Mobility Of The Population Of Connecticut, 1965-70, Kenneth Hadden

Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station

No abstract provided.


Population Of Connecticut: Town And County Fact Book, 1970, The, Thomas E. Steahr, Vincent Bolduc, Catherine Skambis Feb 1974

Population Of Connecticut: Town And County Fact Book, 1970, The, Thomas E. Steahr, Vincent Bolduc, Catherine Skambis

Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station

No abstract provided.


The Population Of Connecticut, 1970: Nativity And Racial Composition, Kenneth P. Hadden Jan 1974

The Population Of Connecticut, 1970: Nativity And Racial Composition, Kenneth P. Hadden

Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station

No abstract provided.


Population Of Connecticut: Abridged Life Tables By Sex And Color 1959-61 And 1969-71, The, Thomas E. Steahr Jun 1973

Population Of Connecticut: Abridged Life Tables By Sex And Color 1959-61 And 1969-71, The, Thomas E. Steahr

Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station

No abstract provided.


Recent Fertility Trends In Connecticut 1960 To 1970, Thomas E. Steahr Jun 1973

Recent Fertility Trends In Connecticut 1960 To 1970, Thomas E. Steahr

Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station

No abstract provided.


Acculturation Among Mescalero Apache High School Students, Richard B. Scott May 1959

Acculturation Among Mescalero Apache High School Students, Richard B. Scott

Sociology ETDs

This thesis is a comparative study of the effects of the social environments of two types of schools on the acculturation process among Mescalero Apache Indian high school students. The two types of schools were an Indian boarding school, located some distance from the reservation, and integrated public schools, located in small town near the Mescalero Apache Indian Reservation. The Indian school removes the children from the home environment and its influences but places them where the opportunity for social interaction with members of the "Anglo" society is greater.

English language skill was used not only as an index of …


The Class Structure Of A Minority Group In A Valley City, Marcus Asie Williams Jan 1956

The Class Structure Of A Minority Group In A Valley City, Marcus Asie Williams

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

There is an accepted principle amongst sociologists that all communities have some pattern of stratification. Since the Valley City Negroes, the minority group selected for this research. represent a community structure, some pattern of stratification is present. At the time of this study the specific nature of the class structure tor this community had not been identified.

Statement of the problem. It was the purpose of this study (l) to delineate the social class structure of the Negro community of the Valley City metropolitan area in the year 1950~1951; (2) to show the relationships of membership in associations to class …


San Jose, 1946: A Study In Urbanization, Frank C. Moore May 1947

San Jose, 1946: A Study In Urbanization, Frank C. Moore

Sociology ETDs

For many years New Mexico has been classified as a rural state. Although New Mexico is still predominately rural, a trend toward urbanization has appeared in recent years.

The study is concerned with this change of San José, [New Mexico] from a rural to urban community. Previous literature has postulated the hypothesis that urbanization produces a change in the total structure, or configuration, or a community's way of life. This change, in turn, produces profound and far-reaching effects upon the individual and his way of life. The purpose of this study, therefore, is (1) to show the effects of urbanization …