Browsing by Subject "Major sociology"
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)This study examines the distribution and equity of services in two community-based home health care programs known as the Primary Home Care Program and the Family Care Program. Using descriptive, explanatory and interpretive ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1979)The objective of this study was to assess empirically a status attainment model of career ambition and career-related preferences for four rural race-sex groups. The basic concepts throughout the study were "aspiration," ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1977)The purpose of the study was to answer the following questions: How do the attitudes of young adult college students toward old people differ from the attitudes of older adults toward old people? How do the attitudes toward ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)Although the study of community power structure or community decision-making has been relatively intense in the United States since the early 1950s, the study in Nigerian communities is scanty, if there are any at all. The ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1980)Based on data from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Work Experience, this research assesses three major life career patterns for mature American women: home, labor force, and mixed careers. The research then evaluates ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1994)This study assesses the relative strength of expected utility theory and prospect theory in explaining behavior in social dilemmas. A 2 x 2 factorial experiment measures the effect of framing games as give or take on level ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1986)This dissertation proposes a synthesized approach for explaining the consequences of technological and natural disasters. This approach contends that disasters can be conceptualized into components which are amenable to ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1991)The effect of bureaucratic structure on individual contributions to a public good is examined using a laboratory experiment. It is proposed that when individuals are placed in the context of an ideal-typical bureaucracy ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)This study attempts to explain the political developments of Qing China and Tokugawa Japan of the late 19th century from a new perspective, one focused on the elite structure. I argue that neither Marxian nor Weberian ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1991)Three major dimensions of the empowerment process are identified (actors, goals, guidelines for practice) through a review of the literature on the practice of empowerment. Subsequently, empowerment is formally defined as ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1987)This study examines the extent to which formal organization theory developed from the analysis of work organizations is applicable to a voluntary social service organization. The specific concepts included in the study ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1987)The major goal of this research is to examine the effects of high school sport participation on career and academic achievements for black and white females. Status attainment research provides the theoretical basis for ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1980)The primary objective of this research was an exploration of the role of future time perspective in the choice of food use patterns or the maintenance of life-long food habits of a sample of people over sixty years old. A ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1994)This study attempts to discover and model social correlates of infant homicide. A social profile is developed and used to assess the viability of potentially relevant theories, such as theories of aggression, family violence, ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1987)This dissertation looks at factors which influence educational and occupational aspirations of black and white males. The research draws upon the recent literature in the sociology of sport to ascertain the impact sport ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)Recent work signals a return to questions about relationships between diverse knowledge claims and macrolevel change. In this dissertation, I outline a preliminary model of science and technology in society as a basis for ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1980)The increasing scale of urban life suggests that the autonomy of small communities is lessened as verticalization and massification occurs. The processes of urbanization, industrialization, and bureaucratization which ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1990)The main goal of this dissertation was to study migration patterns and socioeconomic returns to migration among migrant female-headed families. The Texas data used in the dissertation were drawn from public-use microdata ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1976)A lack of understanding of the internal bureaucratic procedures for adapting exists among sociologists. This dissertation consists of a change model, the variables of which are based upon the goals, roles, structure, change ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1980)This study focused on the “quality of life” in selected coconut-producing communities in Southern Luzon, Phillippines. Couched in a human ecology perspective, the major proposition states that the quality of human existence ...