The Ritual Of Riots: An Examination Of University And College Riots, 1990 – 2009,
2022
Black Hills State University
The Ritual Of Riots: An Examination Of University And College Riots, 1990 – 2009, Sandra Marker
Great Plains Sociologist
Between 1990 and 2009 a wave of student riots washed across 52 college campuses and communities in the United States. Over 100 riots erupted from student festivities and sporting events. On a cursory level, today’s student riots in contrast to past Vietnam War Era campus riots that had a specific goal (i.e., ending the war), seem to have no particular aim nor objective other than the consumption of alcohol. This has led researchers to presume that excessive student drinking is a significant causal factor to these events; however, findings from initial student riot studies indicate that alcohol is neither a …
An Examination Of Geographic And Socio- Demographic Impacts On Private Industry Job Change In The Dakotas, 2002 – 2008,
2022
Austin Peay State University
An Examination Of Geographic And Socio- Demographic Impacts On Private Industry Job Change In The Dakotas, 2002 – 2008, W. Trevor Brooks, Jake Cummings, Joshua J. Turner
Great Plains Sociologist
This study examines geographic and socio-demographic factors associated with private industry job change in North and South Dakota from 2002 to 2008. We conceptualize private industries as enterprises or businesses that are individually or corporately owned and operated outside the public sector. County-level occupational data were captured using the U.S. Census Bureau’s Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI). Results indicate that percentage of workers commuting to another county for work, median household income, the percentage of residents identifying as American Indian and Alaska Native, and population change were significant predictors of county-level private industry job change.
Book Review: Debating Sex And Gender By Georgia Wamke,
2022
Black Hills State University
Book Review: Debating Sex And Gender By Georgia Wamke, Laura Colmenero-Chilberg
Great Plains Sociologist
Warnke, Georgia. Debating Sex and Gender. Oxford University Press, 2011, 144 pp., $19.95 paperback.
Book Review: Fat Matters: From Sociology To Science Edited By Gina Tsichlia And Alexandra M. Johnstone,
2022
University of North Dakota
Book Review: Fat Matters: From Sociology To Science Edited By Gina Tsichlia And Alexandra M. Johnstone, Brittney Hansen
Great Plains Sociologist
Tsichlia, Gina and Alexandra M. Johnstone (Eds.). Fat Matters: From Sociology to Science. M & K Update Ltd., 2010, 144 pp., $45.00 paperback.
Voters Reframe The Abortion Policy Debate: A Theoretical Analysis Of Abortion Attitudes In South Dakota,
2022
Black Hills State University
Voters Reframe The Abortion Policy Debate: A Theoretical Analysis Of Abortion Attitudes In South Dakota, Pamela Carriveau, Linda Colmenero-Chilberg
Great Plains Sociologist
Since the Supreme Court’s announced its decision in Roe v. Wade (1973), individuals and groups opposed to legalized abortion in the United States have battled to reverse the ruling. Using established political processes, incremental steps such as parental consent requirements and/or twenty-four hour waiting periods have been strategically advanced as they charted the path to their real goal – an all-out abortion ban. Contemporary South Dakota Pro-Life activists abandoned this incremental approach in 2006, in the belief that the time was ripe for a voter-supported broadbased abortion ban that could be used to challenge the Supreme Court decision. They failed, …
Understanding Workday Housework Participation: Testing Three Theories,
2022
University of North Dakota
Understanding Workday Housework Participation: Testing Three Theories, Krista Lynn Minnotte, Matti Grotte
Great Plains Sociologist
In this study we examine the usefulness of three theories (time availability theory, gender ideology theory, and relative resources) in predicting workday housework performance among partnered and married mothers and fathers. In doing so, we incorporate an extended version of time availability theory that considers the use of flexible scheduling and the presence of nonstandard work hours in addition to number of hours worked. Our hypotheses are addressed with data from a nationally representative sample of employed adults. Our results show that none of the theories are useful in predicting fathers’ workday housework performance; however, two theories are beneficial for …
Structural Conditions And Migration In The Dakotas,
2022
Mississippi State University
Structural Conditions And Migration In The Dakotas, Joshua J. Turner, W. Trevor Brooks, Donald E. Arwood
Great Plains Sociologist
This study examines the influence of selected structural conditions on the county-level net-migration trends of North Dakota and South Dakota. Key principles from Lee’s Theory of Migration (1966) and Wallerstein’s World Systems model (1974) were integrated to explain how geographic context, economic dependency, and pace of economic development combine to serve as the main catalysts behind the migration patterns in these two states. Results indicate that commuting patterns, the percentage of workers employed in extractive industries, the percentage of workers employed in manufacturing, and job change rates were significant predictors of county migration patterns.
Book Review: School Of Dreams: Making The Grade At A Top American High School By Edward Humes,
2022
South Dakota State University
Book Review: School Of Dreams: Making The Grade At A Top American High School By Edward Humes, Jake Thomas
Great Plains Sociologist
Humes, Edward. School of Dreams: Making the Grade at a Top American High School. Orlando: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003. 400 pp. $14.00 paperback.
An Exploratory Study Of Job Satisfaction Among Mail Handlers And Sorters In A Package-Delivery Organization,
2022
University of Nebraska at Omaha
An Exploratory Study Of Job Satisfaction Among Mail Handlers And Sorters In A Package-Delivery Organization, A. Olu Oyinlade, Carla Garay
Great Plains Sociologist
This is an exploratory study of the correlates and predictors of job satisfaction among mail handlers and sorters, in a package-delivery organization, used as case study. Job satisfaction has been widely studied, but most studies have largely neglected manual laborers. This study is a shift from traditional research participants (health care providers, the military, scientists) of job satisfaction studies to manual workers. A research framework consisting of a theoretical and a demographic model was used to establish correlates and predictors of job satisfaction. Findings of correlation analyses and three regression models (used for triangulation) showed that ten variables were correlated …
A Test Of Social Disorganization On Juvenile Property And Violent Crime Rates By Zip Codes Within Two Nonmetropolitan Counties,
2022
St. Cloud State University
A Test Of Social Disorganization On Juvenile Property And Violent Crime Rates By Zip Codes Within Two Nonmetropolitan Counties, Mario T. Hesse, Susan M. Hilal
Great Plains Sociologist
This study tests the effects of social disorganization on juvenile crimes rates by zip code within two nonmetropolitan counties. It does so by examining the relationships between the selected social disorganization indicators of nontraditional family, residential mobility, and socioeconomic status (poverty) and violent and property crime among juveniles through the use of ANOVA testing. Secondary data obtained from the South Dakota Department of Corrections on adjudicated juveniles and their associated crime and residential location, as well as data from the United States Census Bureau is used and analyzed to test three main hypotheses. Findings indicate that areas characterized by poverty …
Historical Perspectives On Affirmative Action, Diversity And Multiculturalism In United States Higher Education,
2022
Minnesota State University, Mankato
Historical Perspectives On Affirmative Action, Diversity And Multiculturalism In United States Higher Education, Kebba Darboe
Great Plains Sociologist
This paper examines the historical perspectives on affirmative action, diversity and multiculturalism in United States Higher Education. Affirmative action is a legal program that ensures that qualified and historically underrepresented groups, especially African Americans and women, are given preference in the hiring, promotion, and admission in colleges and universities. By contrast, diversity and multiculturalism are social constructions of reality. Diversity is an inclusion process designed to foster an environment where talents, uniqueness and differences of all people are respected and valued in schools or workplace situations. Multiculturalism is a movement that insists that American society has never been white, but …
Book Review: Men On A Mission: Valuing Youth Work In Our Communities By William Marsiglio,
2022
South Dakota State University
Book Review: Men On A Mission: Valuing Youth Work In Our Communities By William Marsiglio, Kristi D. Treviño
Great Plains Sociologist
Book Review: Men on a Mission: Valuing Youth Work in Our Communities by William Marsiglio
Future Population Shifts In The Great Plains And Their Implications,
2022
North Dakota State University
Future Population Shifts In The Great Plains And Their Implications, Richard Rathge
Great Plains Sociologist
The dynamics of population change in the Great Plains are complex and largely hidden. From a regional or even state perspective, one is left with the impression that the area has enjoyed sustained population growth. All 12 states in the region (i.e., Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wyoming, South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas) increased their population from 1990 to 2000, and the region as a whole expanded by 6.7 million people or 17 percent (Rathge, 2005). In fact, the region’s population has doubled since 1950. However, these aggregate statistics mask a very different reality. Population …
Revisiting The Overurbanization Theses: A Test Of A Theoretically Inclusive Model Using Path Modeling With Lisrel,
2022
Minnesota State University, Mankato
Revisiting The Overurbanization Theses: A Test Of A Theoretically Inclusive Model Using Path Modeling With Lisrel, Luis Posas
Great Plains Sociologist
This study tests the structural linkages of well-known theoretical determinants of overurbanization in low-income nations. It represents a general call to advance theoretically inclusive analysis using standard methodological tools in the current literature. The proposed theoretically inclusive model tests the effects of international and intra-national forces on overurbanization. Using data from low income countries for the period late-1960s-to-mid-1980s, the study presents the results of path models estimated by Generalized Least Square (GLS) with LISREL. The results show that foreign investment exacerbates overurbanization through its short-term positive effect on economic development, confirming assumptions of World Systems and Modernization theories. In addition, …
Accessing Food In Rural Food Deserts In Iowa And Minnesota,
2022
Iowa State University
Accessing Food In Rural Food Deserts In Iowa And Minnesota, Lois Wright Morton, Chery Smith
Great Plains Sociologist
The purpose of this research is to examine the food infrastructure (grocery stores and food safety net services) available to meet the food needs of people living in high poverty rural places. Random mail surveys (n=1,516), purposeful in-person surveys (n=665), and market basket food price surveys of 130 USDA Thrifty Food Plan items in 16 grocery stores in six rural counties in Iowa and Minnesota provide data for this analysis. We find that Iowa rural users of food safety net services are more likely to depend on others to get to the grocery store (5.6-6.2%) compared to similar population in …
Church Satisfaction Among Rural Minnesota Protestant Lay Leaders,
2022
George Fox University
Church Satisfaction Among Rural Minnesota Protestant Lay Leaders, Terry E. Huffman
Great Plains Sociologist
This paper reports on general church satisfaction among a sample of rural Minnesota Protestant lay leaders. The author examined the relationship between the dependent variable general church satisfaction with eight independent variables divided into three dimensions of church life. Prominent findings indicate that the vitality of churches is associated with higher levels of church satisfaction among the lay leaders. Additionally, older lay leaders reported greater general satisfaction with their church than did younger lay leaders. However, church contentment is not significantly connected to the mere size of the congregation, type of denomination, gender of the lay leader, or status of …
Gender In Pop Fiction: “Reading” Gender Power In Popular Fiction,
2022
Black Hills State University
Gender In Pop Fiction: “Reading” Gender Power In Popular Fiction, Linda Colmenero-Chilberg
Great Plains Sociologist
This article investigates changes in the levels of women’s power in the American publishing industry in the period between 1985 and 2004. Four areas are analyzed including the representation of women at the executive levels of publishing divisions and international media conglomerates, the gender of the most powerful mass market authors of popular fiction, the gender focus of those genres that are most popular with the buying public and the representation of male and female characters in that mass-market genre fiction.
Promoting Development Of Urban-Rural Integration By Urban Agriculture,
2022
Institute of Urban Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Chengdu 610213, China
Promoting Development Of Urban-Rural Integration By Urban Agriculture, Qichang Yang
Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)
How to solve the widening gap between urban and rural areas caused by the rapid development of urbanization and its siphonic effect has become the focus of the whole society. The unique role of urban agriculture in expanding urban agricultural space, enhancing the elasticity of urban food supply, ensuring residents' physical and mental health, improving the ecological environment, and reducing carbon footprint was discussed, from the perspectives of urban agriculture's connotation and denotation, morphological characteristics and functions. Besides, the potential role of urban agriculture in solving the issues of rural and urban development and the method and strategies of integration …
Perspective On Study Of Urban Science,
2022
Urban Mobility Institute, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
Perspective On Study Of Urban Science, Guangtao Wang, Fen Li, Nannan Gao, Xiang Liu
Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)
Improving the urbanization strategy and making the city a space for the people's high-quality life is the new requirement put forward by General Secretary Xi Jinping for urban development. To fulfill this requirement, it is needed to study and understand in-depth consideration of urban development issues. This work studies urban issues from the national conditions such as urban morphology, population distribution, population mobility, and flow of peasant workers. Focusing on the overall requirement of respecting regularity, this study considers the connotation of urbanization and socialist modernized cities in the era of ecological civilization. Reviewing the theoretical basis of urban science …
Briefly Noted,
2022
South Dakota State University
Briefly Noted
Great Plains Sociologist
Short summaries of new books. A book's appearance here does not preclude its being reviewed in a subsequent volume.
