Диссертации

Billy Wayne Godair, Berhanu Mengistu
OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY , 2001
This study examined Wilson's hypothesis that economic restructuring accompanied by spatial redistribution of employment opportunities coupled with rising skills requirements for employment provide an explanation for the increasing concentration of metropolitan area poverty in its central city. This study also assesses the influence that racism, represented by racial residential segregation (Index of Dissimilarity), may have on the distribution of metropolitan poverty.

Monica Elizabeth Gutierrez
Научный руководитель: Walter F. Stenning
Организация: Texas A&M University
2002
The purpose of this study was to determine social class positions as derived from career and educational aspirations and expectations and to identify barriers affecting career and educational achievement. The research study was focused on students from a small geographically isolated community. These students were bused 20 miles to a high school outside their county and have historically had a high dropout rate. Individual interviews were conducted with 32 students and former students and their parents, as well as eight teachers from the high school. The student pool was evenly divided

Liesl Anna Riddle, John Sibley Butler, Kate Gillespie
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN , 2001
In this dissertation, open-systems theories concerning organizational emergence, development, and coexistence are employed to generate research themes that explain the EPO landscape in the Turkish clothing industry. These themes are explored through a combination of quantitative and qualitative research methods, including