Диссертации

Nancy Bender Carlton
Научный руководитель: Barry Heermann
Организация: Union Institute and University
2001
The goal was to investigate salient factors that hindered and enhanced their life career development process, which was defined from a holistic, developmental, and dynamic systems perspective to provide a framework for examining multiple inner dimensions (intellectual, emotional, spiritual, and career development), and outer environments (school, family, community) over the lifespan. Depth interviewing and the use of story were the primary methods for gathering data. The data analysis revealed the following inhibitors: broken relationships and trust with childhood primary caregivers; la

William Stephen Clayson, Alwyn Barr
Организация: Texas Tech University (Texas Tech University)
2001
This dissertation represents the only historical study to date to recount the history of the War on Poverty in Texas. The study describes the dimensions of poverty in the state in the mid-twentieth century; explains the development of the various programs of the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), the primary anti-poverty agency of the Johnson administration; and traces how these programs were put into practice in Texas.

Kesha Sarine Coleman-Moore
Научный руководитель: Elijah Anderson
Организация: University of Pennsylvania
2002
This dissertation investigates the role of a new form of community development initiative to address these social problems and challenging social forces that created it. This dissertation is based on a three-year ethnography of community development in a low-income neighborhood of Philadelphia. To learn about the life and culture of the neighborhood, I moved into the area, participated in local community events, volunteered at community-based organizations, visited local churches and interviewed long term and recent residents. I utilized a grounded theory approach to develop the analytic

Vincent Edward Collom, Edna Bonacich
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE , 2002
This project is an analysis of Americans' attitudes toward three forms of workplace democracy. National survey data from 1991 are employed to investigate the relationship between the bases of social inequality under contemporary capitalism and this alternative which potentially ameliorates workplace inequality. Race, class, and gender are hypothesized to be major determinants of attitudes toward workplace democracy. Numerous indicators of class position are examined and the class criteria which tap into production relations are most salient. A more holistic class location analysis demons

John J. Condon
Научный руководитель: Lindsey Churchill
Организация: City University of New York
2001
Medicine is and has been a highly prestigious profession. It both produces and reproduces members of the upper class. Its high status has long been accepted as legitimate by society due to the tremendous sacrifices its members make both in the length and difficulty of their training and the content of their work. However, medicine is currently facing problems. It is under siege by managed care organizations and the federal government, which not only want to regulate fees that physicians receive but to intervene in their professional decision making. One of the initiatives currently unde