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- AGING VIEWED FROM A LIFE-SPAN PERSPECTIVE.
- Creator
- TAYLOR, REBECCA CATHERINE., Florida Atlantic University, Britt, David, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Sociology
- Abstract/Description
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Developmental research has typically focused on one specific and rather narrowly defined age group. It is suggested that attention to a life-span perspective is increasing and that potentially such a perspective will integrate our concept of human development, especially in regard to the study of aging. Toward this end, the paper discusses paradigm differences in the definition of development and how these definitions have affected previous developmental studies. The developmental theories of...
Show moreDevelopmental research has typically focused on one specific and rather narrowly defined age group. It is suggested that attention to a life-span perspective is increasing and that potentially such a perspective will integrate our concept of human development, especially in regard to the study of aging. Toward this end, the paper discusses paradigm differences in the definition of development and how these definitions have affected previous developmental studies. The developmental theories of Piaget, Mead, and Erikson are presented as a broad theoretical framework for life-span research. Methodological implications of a life-span perspective are considered.
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- 1976
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13816
- Subject Headings
- Aging, Developmental psychology
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Prison privatization in the United States: a new strategy for racial control.
- Creator
- Mercadal-Sabbagh, Gertrudis, Araghi, Farshad A., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Sociology
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There has been a stunning build-up of prisons and a growing trend in prison privatization in the last 30 years, including the rise of maximum security units. The goal of my dissertation is to understand the ideological, historic, political, and economic processes behind the changes in the criminal justice system of the United States. I analyze this problem from multiple angles—labor and policy history, discourse and public opinion, and race in America. The aim of this analysis is to uncover...
Show moreThere has been a stunning build-up of prisons and a growing trend in prison privatization in the last 30 years, including the rise of maximum security units. The goal of my dissertation is to understand the ideological, historic, political, and economic processes behind the changes in the criminal justice system of the United States. I analyze this problem from multiple angles—labor and policy history, discourse and public opinion, and race in America. The aim of this analysis is to uncover the reasons why crime legislation became progressively more punitive, reaction to African Americans gains in post-Civil Rights more hostile, and the manifold ways in which these phenomena drive the expansion of the prison system and its increasing privatization. In the process of this expansion, a racial caste system which oppresses young African Americans and people of color has become recast and entrenched. Specifically, I offer the notion that in the last three decades, punitive crime legislation focused on African Americans and served to deal with labor needs and racial conflict with harsher penal legislation; in doing so, it depoliticized race, institutionalized racial practices, and served the interests of private prison businesses in new ways oppressive ways. Using interdisciplinary methods which weave together qualitative and quantitative analysis, I find that punitive crime policies in the last thirty years used the concept of crime as political currency by government officials in order to appear tough on crime, and by business representatives interested in exploiting the prison industry. The conflation of business and political interests, and the recasting of crime as a race problem, served to taint public institutions and media dissemination with racist imperatives which stereotyped poor African Americans. The end result is a constant re-positioning of young black males as fodder for economic exploitation. The dissertation also addresses the high cost of imprisonment and the multiple social problems brought from shifting inmates from wards of the State to profit-making opportunities in the hands of private entrepreneurs. The result is high numbers of recidivism, and a growing underclass of people who will always be unemployed or underemployed and return to low income communities that suffer from the endless cycle of poverty and imprisonment.
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- 2014
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004218, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004218
- Subject Headings
- Corrections -- Contracting out, Prison administration, Prisons and race relations, Privatization
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Mean Girls or Bad Girls: Expressions of Conflict and Aggression by Black and White Female Siblings on Family Sitcoms.
- Creator
- Somersall, Akilah Sharifa, Backstrom, Laura, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Sociology
- Abstract/Description
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This thesis examines the expression of anger and aggression in interactions of 6 black and 4 white female siblings on family sitcoms from the 1980s, 1990s and the 2010s. The interactions were examined to determine whether black girls on TV sitcoms were depicted as more conflictual than their white counterparts, whether the content of the portrayals of black girls differed from white girls based on racialized gender stereotypes related to female anger and aggression, whether these depictions...
Show moreThis thesis examines the expression of anger and aggression in interactions of 6 black and 4 white female siblings on family sitcoms from the 1980s, 1990s and the 2010s. The interactions were examined to determine whether black girls on TV sitcoms were depicted as more conflictual than their white counterparts, whether the content of the portrayals of black girls differed from white girls based on racialized gender stereotypes related to female anger and aggression, whether these depictions changed over three eras of television ranging from the 1980s-2010s, and finally, whether birth order and relationship to the girl (family vs. non family) determined whether relationship context influenced conflict. The findings revealed that by race and across time black girls are less conflictual than their white counterparts. This contradicts the acceptance of solely black girls as representations of the violent and aggressive “bad girl.”
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- 2018
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013020
- Subject Headings
- Sitcoms (Television programs), Blacks on television, Mean girls, Whites on television
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Child Maltreatment and Maladaptive Behavior: An Exploration of the Role of Hostility, Social Influence, and Proximity, Regarding Social Learning in Children.
- Creator
- Samimi, Linda, Tarantino, Santo J., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Sociology
- Abstract/Description
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A study comparing children identified through the juvenile justice system as maltreated to nonmaltreated children was conducted to assess differences in hostility levels between the two groups. Hostility, conceptualized as resistance to social influence, was hypothesized to originate in early childhood as a psychological distancing mechanism which generalizes to social situations of all types. It was further hypothesized that this distancing would promote resistance to social influence and a...
Show moreA study comparing children identified through the juvenile justice system as maltreated to nonmaltreated children was conducted to assess differences in hostility levels between the two groups. Hostility, conceptualized as resistance to social influence, was hypothesized to originate in early childhood as a psychological distancing mechanism which generalizes to social situations of all types. It was further hypothesized that this distancing would promote resistance to social influence and a preference for increased social diatance, diminishing the impact of social learning modalities and increasing the risk for the development of maladaptive social behaviors. T-tests and analysis of variance indicated no significant differences between the two groups regarding hostility scale scores, although maltreated children evidenced significantly less susceptibility to social influence, and were found to score significantly lower on socialization and social adjustment measures.
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- 1987
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00012597
- Subject Headings
- Child abuse, Hostility (Psychology), Social interaction in children
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- EARLY SUBJECT-OBJECT RELATIONS AND THE PERCEPTION OF SYNTACTIC RELATIONS IN SPEECH: THE SOCIAL GENESIS OF SEMANTIC STRUCTURE AS A FUNCTION OF FATHER ABSENCE.
- Creator
- LORICCHIO, DAVID FRANK., Florida Atlantic University, Tarantino, Santo J., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Sociology
- Abstract/Description
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Statistical analysis of test scores obtained from forty-one children separated from the father during early life and their matched controls provides support for the conclusion that the quality or type of subject-object interaction in the caretaking environment effectively contributes to one's concept of the self as involved in a world of other selves and objects, as one other member of a social system. The concepts of self and other are derived from the form of experience which one has had in...
Show moreStatistical analysis of test scores obtained from forty-one children separated from the father during early life and their matched controls provides support for the conclusion that the quality or type of subject-object interaction in the caretaking environment effectively contributes to one's concept of the self as involved in a world of other selves and objects, as one other member of a social system. The concepts of self and other are derived from the form of experience which one has had in responding to others present. Conceptual thinking emerges as a reflection upon objects known. Objects are known to the self as a result of actions taken in response to a thing's good or useful properties. Seen in this way, knowledge represents an instrumental relation of knower to thing known.
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- 1980
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14028
- Subject Headings
- Cognition in children, Paternal deprivation
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Entry-level examinations and the community college: "Cooling out" or casting out?.
- Creator
- Gabe, LiAnne Creviston., Florida Atlantic University, Anderson, Kristine L., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Sociology
- Abstract/Description
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The community college system has been charged with providing open access to education for those who would otherwise be unable to obtain higher education, and with maintaining high educational standards at the same time. In an attempt to reconcile these disparate goals, the State of Florida legislated, beginning in 1985, entry-level testing and placement into remedial courses for those scoring below legislated cut-off scores. Remedial education, if effective, should result in increased student...
Show moreThe community college system has been charged with providing open access to education for those who would otherwise be unable to obtain higher education, and with maintaining high educational standards at the same time. In an attempt to reconcile these disparate goals, the State of Florida legislated, beginning in 1985, entry-level testing and placement into remedial courses for those scoring below legislated cut-off scores. Remedial education, if effective, should result in increased student success. When the student success rates of a pre-legislation cohort are compared to students from a post-legislation cohort, they have not increased. Instead, declines are seen in graduation, retention in good academic standing, and the number leaving the college in good academic standing. These declines were not greater for minorities than for white students. The "cooling-out" function of community colleges is enhanced by the process.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1990
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14588
- Subject Headings
- Community colleges--Florida, Community colleges--Entrance requirements
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- THE RISING BLACK ELITE: A MODEL AND AN ASSESSMENT OF CHANGE WITHIN THE BLACK MALE POPULATION FROM 1960 TO 1970.
- Creator
- WISWELL, CANDACE HINSON., Florida Atlantic University, Villemez, Wayne J., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Sociology
- Abstract/Description
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The paper integrates the internal colonial model with the dual labor market perspective. Using data from the 1960 and 1970 Censuses, it assesses the impact of Civil Rights legislation on the education, income, and occupation distributions of black males. The findings are that the increase in blacks with college degrees has resulted in black males moving at a disproportionately high rate into upper level occupations such as professional, technical, management, and administrative occupations....
Show moreThe paper integrates the internal colonial model with the dual labor market perspective. Using data from the 1960 and 1970 Censuses, it assesses the impact of Civil Rights legislation on the education, income, and occupation distributions of black males. The findings are that the increase in blacks with college degrees has resulted in black males moving at a disproportionately high rate into upper level occupations such as professional, technical, management, and administrative occupations. This may be contributing to the growing inequality of income among blacks that has been noted in the literature. It also supports the position that the benefits from Civil Rights legislation will be greatest for blacks who were already relatively well off.
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- 1978
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13945
- Subject Headings
- Afro-American men--Social conditions, Afro-American men--Economic conditions, African American men--Social conditions, African American men--Economic conditions
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- Document (PDF)
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- Influence of ethnicity, relocation, and social integration on the decision to complete an Advance Medical Directive: A survey of Boca Raton retirees.
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- Frank, Abbott., Florida Atlantic University, Evans, Arthur S., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Sociology
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Research has shown that generally no more than 20% of populations surveyed have completed Advance Medical Directives and that there is a strong ethnic variation in their choice (i.e. Protestants and Whites were more likely to have an Advance Medical Directive than Jews, Catholics, Hispanics, or Blacks). This thesis developed and tested the hypothesis that the use of Advance Medical Directives by Jews would comparably vary inversely with their degree of social integration as measured by their...
Show moreResearch has shown that generally no more than 20% of populations surveyed have completed Advance Medical Directives and that there is a strong ethnic variation in their choice (i.e. Protestants and Whites were more likely to have an Advance Medical Directive than Jews, Catholics, Hispanics, or Blacks). This thesis developed and tested the hypothesis that the use of Advance Medical Directives by Jews would comparably vary inversely with their degree of social integration as measured by their degree of orthodoxy. Survey results confirmed this hypothesis, but more significantly demonstrated that for all samples tested, regardless of religion, 74% of the over-65 respondents had completed an Advance Medical Directive. It is postulated that this high rate of implementation is an effect of the lower degree of social integration of the Boca Raton retirees brought about by a physical relocation to Florida from their former family, residential, and business networks.
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- 1996
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15276
- Subject Headings
- Right to die, Do-not-resuscitate orders, Terminal care--Decision making, Older people--Long-term care, Jews--Florida--Boca Raton--Statistics, Boca Raton (Fla)--Population--Statistics
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- International dependence, basic needs provision, inequality and political violence: A cross-national analysis.
- Creator
- Robinson, Thomas Dion., Florida Atlantic University, London, Bruce, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Sociology
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A cross-national study examining both intra-and international determinants of collective political violence within nations was conducted in an effort to replicate and extend previous findings: that international factors indirectly (and directly) increase political violence through their effects on income inequality. The robustness of these findings was tested in a panel regression analysis by examining model respecifications and including new variables. The international variables tested...
Show moreA cross-national study examining both intra-and international determinants of collective political violence within nations was conducted in an effort to replicate and extend previous findings: that international factors indirectly (and directly) increase political violence through their effects on income inequality. The robustness of these findings was tested in a panel regression analysis by examining model respecifications and including new variables. The international variables tested indirectly affected political violence through income inequality. Earlier findings of a direct effect of income inequality on political violence were replicated and extended to an intra/international model of domestic political violence.
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- 1990
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14623
- Subject Headings
- Violence--Forecasting, Violence--Research, Government, Resistance to, International relations
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Has medicalization of menopause been a success?.
- Creator
- Campbell, Janice Eva., Florida Atlantic University, Appleton, Lynn M., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Sociology
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In the 1960s and 70s, menopause was actively promoted by some members of the medical profession as a debilitating disease. The promotion extended from medical journals to popular books and magazines. Despite these efforts, by the 1980's and 90's, the medicalization of menopause has not been an unequivocal success. Using Conrad and Schneider's theory of the Medicalization of Deviance as a framework for my discussion, I provide evidence that medicalization is only partially successful. The...
Show moreIn the 1960s and 70s, menopause was actively promoted by some members of the medical profession as a debilitating disease. The promotion extended from medical journals to popular books and magazines. Despite these efforts, by the 1980's and 90's, the medicalization of menopause has not been an unequivocal success. Using Conrad and Schneider's theory of the Medicalization of Deviance as a framework for my discussion, I provide evidence that medicalization is only partially successful. The promoters of the concept of menopause as a disease have succeeded in formulating this definition, have been partially successful in institutionalizing it, and failed to implement their goal of treating all menopausal women with estrogen.
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- 1995
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15137
- Subject Headings
- Menopause, Menopause--Hormone therapy, Estrogen--Therapeutic use, Women--Health and hygiene
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- IDEOLOGY, SOCIAL POSITION AND ATTITUDES TOWARD THE WOMEN'S LIBERATION MOVEMENT.
- Creator
- WRIGHT, ELAINE BENNETT., Florida Atlantic University, O'Rand, Angela, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Sociology
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Previous research has failed to show that women's attitudes toward the women's liberation movement are related in any systematic fashion to their social position. Utilizing a national. representative sample of 826 women, this thesis develops and tests a framework of attitude format ion which links a woman's location in the social structure to her attitude toward the movement. Drawing on the Mannheim tradition, the framework hinges on the importance of two distinct ideologies which intervene...
Show morePrevious research has failed to show that women's attitudes toward the women's liberation movement are related in any systematic fashion to their social position. Utilizing a national. representative sample of 826 women, this thesis develops and tests a framework of attitude format ion which links a woman's location in the social structure to her attitude toward the movement. Drawing on the Mannheim tradition, the framework hinges on the importance of two distinct ideologies which intervene to bring the movement into focus as either a Reformist, egalitarian movement or a Radical, change-oriented movement. We find that a woman's objective position in the social structure does determine her attitude toward the women's liberation movement, only indirectly, through her subjective interpretation of the movement which takes the form of an intervening ideology.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1976
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13819
- Subject Headings
- Sociology, General
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- IMPACT OF OCCUPATIONAL IDENTITY: CUBAN EXILE FISHERMEN IN DADE COUNTY.
- Creator
- KHULY, MARGARITA ALEJANDRE., Florida Atlantic University, Villemez, Wayne J., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Sociology
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This study focuses on occupational identity of Cuban exile fishermen in Dade County, Florida, and the strength of this identity when faced with the Bahamian fishing conflict (1973-1975). It was hypothesized that this identity would become stronger because of this conflict. Other hypotheses predicted differences between perceived and actual fishing legislation in the United States, pre-revolutionary and revolutionary Cuba. The same comparison was made with occupational status. Subjective data...
Show moreThis study focuses on occupational identity of Cuban exile fishermen in Dade County, Florida, and the strength of this identity when faced with the Bahamian fishing conflict (1973-1975). It was hypothesized that this identity would become stronger because of this conflict. Other hypotheses predicted differences between perceived and actual fishing legislation in the United States, pre-revolutionary and revolutionary Cuba. The same comparison was made with occupational status. Subjective data was obtained from a questionnaire administered to fifty fishermen. Strength of occupational identity was not as strong as expected. Subjective views on fishing legislation and status did show a discrepancy with objective data. A number of fishermen conformed to all hypotheses, and further analyses attempt to explain the stronger occupational identity of this group.
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- 1975
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13721
- Subject Headings
- Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- FATNESS: SOCIETAL REACTION AND THE HIGHLY VISIBLE DEVIANT.
- Creator
- GROSCH, RANDY., Florida Atlantic University, Tittle, Charles, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Sociology
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Employing the interactionist framework, the fat person was conceived of as a social deviant engaged in the process of building and validating a workable identity. Fat persons were drawn from two theoretical pools reflecting high and low degrees of commitment to the fat role. It was hypothesized that the committed fat subjects would have significant others who approved the fatness. The data clearly supported this assertion. It was further hypothesized that committed fat people would experience...
Show moreEmploying the interactionist framework, the fat person was conceived of as a social deviant engaged in the process of building and validating a workable identity. Fat persons were drawn from two theoretical pools reflecting high and low degrees of commitment to the fat role. It was hypothesized that the committed fat subjects would have significant others who approved the fatness. The data clearly supported this assertion. It was further hypothesized that committed fat people would experience a lesser degree of anxiety and depression than non-committed fats. Directional support was found for this hypothesis. However, considerable male-female differences exist regarding the role of commitment as an anxiety reducer. An hypothesis stating that committed fat people would exhibit a more positive self-concept than their less committed counterparts was not borne out by the data.
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- 1973
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13609
- Subject Headings
- Obesity--Psychological aspects, Deviant behavior--Labeling theory, Body image
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Fear and anxiety: A cross-cultural analysis.
- Creator
- Kofler, Angelika., Florida Atlantic University, Appleton, Lynn M., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Sociology
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American and Austrian subjects responded to the questionnaire used in the "International Survey on Emotion Antecedents and Reactions" with regard to anxiety and fear, the Self-Monitoring Scale, and the Social Desirability Scale. As hypothesized, results show differences between the two emotions and between the two countries with regard to antecedents, recency, duration, intensity, body symptoms, expressive and verbal reactions, control, expectation, level of unpleasantness, evaluation of...
Show moreAmerican and Austrian subjects responded to the questionnaire used in the "International Survey on Emotion Antecedents and Reactions" with regard to anxiety and fear, the Self-Monitoring Scale, and the Social Desirability Scale. As hypothesized, results show differences between the two emotions and between the two countries with regard to antecedents, recency, duration, intensity, body symptoms, expressive and verbal reactions, control, expectation, level of unpleasantness, evaluation of appropriateness, effect on goals, coping responses and causal attributions. Findings also support the hypothesis that social norms prescribe a taboo on anxiety--but not on fear--that is stronger for Americans than for the Europeans in this sample. In addition, the potential of the Social Desirability Scale and the Self-Monitoring Scale and its factors to identify cultural informants was explored and found promising. High scorers on social desirability appear to reflect normative attitudes. High self-monitors show potential as indicators of normative behavior.
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- 1995
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15187
- Subject Headings
- Emotions--Cross-cultural studies, Anxiety--Cross-cultural studies, Fear--Cross-cultural studies
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Leadership expectancies versus sex role expectations: Their effects on leadership performance, perceptions, and predictions in dyadic interactions.
- Creator
- Snyder, Robert John., Florida Atlantic University, Snodgrass, Sara E., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Sociology
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Research has shown that women are reluctant to act as or perceive themselves as leaders over men (Eagly & Karau, 1991, Snodgrass & Rosenthal, 1984). Other research has shown how expectations about behavior can elicit such behavior (Rosenthal & Rubin, 1978). This thesis combines these two bodies of research in an attempt to create an environment where women emerge as leaders over men. Mixed- and same-sex dyads were given bogus leadership expectancies, and then interacted in a team task....
Show moreResearch has shown that women are reluctant to act as or perceive themselves as leaders over men (Eagly & Karau, 1991, Snodgrass & Rosenthal, 1984). Other research has shown how expectations about behavior can elicit such behavior (Rosenthal & Rubin, 1978). This thesis combines these two bodies of research in an attempt to create an environment where women emerge as leaders over men. Mixed- and same-sex dyads were given bogus leadership expectancies, and then interacted in a team task. Leadership performance, perceptions, and predictions were measured after the task. It was hypothesized and found that expectancies can overcome sex role stereotypes regarding leadership.
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- 1993
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14903
- Subject Headings
- Sex role in the work environment, Leadership, Organizational behavior
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- AN ANALYSIS OF THE CONFEDERATING FUNCTION OF HUMOR.
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- KHOURY, ROBERT MICHAEL., Florida Atlantic University, Villemez, Wayne J., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Sociology
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This essay develops a conceptual framework accounting for the potential of humor to enhance social cohesion. A typology of humor is advanced and the constructed types are successively related to the respective types of solidarity deriving from the incidence of humor and the cognitive mechanisms responsible for the emergent fellow-feeling . Beyond explicating the confederating influence of humor. this essay explores the effects of three structural attributes of joking relations upon the nature...
Show moreThis essay develops a conceptual framework accounting for the potential of humor to enhance social cohesion. A typology of humor is advanced and the constructed types are successively related to the respective types of solidarity deriving from the incidence of humor and the cognitive mechanisms responsible for the emergent fellow-feeling . Beyond explicating the confederating influence of humor. this essay explores the effects of three structural attributes of joking relations upon the nature of the emergent solidarity; these are, the social status of the wit, the nature of the vocalized humor, and, the orientation of the auditors towards their group. The influence of these structural variables upon the cohering potential of humor is considered. In the process of formulating a conceptual scheme explicating the confederating impact of humor as well as assessing the influence of extraneous elements upon this potential the findings of previous humor research are appraised in the light of the advanced argument.
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- 1975
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13756
- Subject Headings
- Wit and humor--Psychology
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- AN ANALYSIS OF THE INTER-RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN CONVENTIONAL POLITICAL BEHAVIOR, NON-CONVENTIONAL POLITICAL ACTIONS AND CONVENTIONAL POLITICAL BELIEFS.
- Creator
- CARRASCO, JOAQUIN CARLOS., Florida Atlantic University, Villemez, Wayne J., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Sociology
- Abstract/Description
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This represents an analysis of the inter-relationship between political beliefs and two distinct types of political actions. Data were gathered from a random sample of college students and nine hypotheses were tested using tabular and regression analysis. It was found that a direct relationship does exist between conventional political beliefs and conventional political actions, and the presence of an inverse relationship between conventional political beliefs and non-conventional political...
Show moreThis represents an analysis of the inter-relationship between political beliefs and two distinct types of political actions. Data were gathered from a random sample of college students and nine hypotheses were tested using tabular and regression analysis. It was found that a direct relationship does exist between conventional political beliefs and conventional political actions, and the presence of an inverse relationship between conventional political beliefs and non-conventional political actions was also detected. In both cases, an individual's predisposition toward political change was found to have significant effect upon the above stated relationships. It was concluded that attitudes toward political change constitutes an integral part of the relationship that exists between political beliefs and political actions.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1973
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13606
- Subject Headings
- Political psychology, Political participation, College students--Florida--Political activity
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The social interaction of co-partner sex participants.
- Creator
- Piet, Kathleen Walker., Florida Atlantic University, Evans, Arthur S., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Sociology
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Using the assumptions of symbolic interactionism, this thesis examines the importance of place to the interaction of co-partner sex participants (also known as swingers). Using a modification of the various elements of place discussed by Denzin (1974), this examination of social interaction investigates the situational contexts that individuals are placed in. Building on Goffman (1959), Denzin (1974), and Lofland (1969), this exploratory research discusses how the physical setting which...
Show moreUsing the assumptions of symbolic interactionism, this thesis examines the importance of place to the interaction of co-partner sex participants (also known as swingers). Using a modification of the various elements of place discussed by Denzin (1974), this examination of social interaction investigates the situational contexts that individuals are placed in. Building on Goffman (1959), Denzin (1974), and Lofland (1969), this exploratory research discusses how the physical setting which provides the conditions, the relationships which bind the participants, and the rules which shape alliances affect interaction. Data for this research was gathered through the distribution of questionnaires at three public swinger's clubs in South Florida. Results show that perceived level of involvement in the swinging community, frequency of swinging, gender, and education level produced statistically significant differences in swinging encounters.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1994
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15014
- Subject Headings
- Group sex, Sex in marriage, Sex--Social aspects, Social interaction--Sexual behavior
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The symbolic interactionist root images of Herbert Blumer: Their theoretical consistency and their application to his substantive research.
- Creator
- Dupont, Benoit Yves., Florida Atlantic University, Tarantino, Santo J., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Sociology
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The thesis provides an in-depth analysis of Blumer's theoretical concepts, or root images, which constitute the theoretical framework of his symbolic interactionism. It is argued that the root images are consistent theoretical concepts in that they do not present a subjectivist, a voluntaristic, an astructural, and a microsociological bias. A study of the application of Blumer's root images to his substantive research is developed along a classification of social groups into what Blumer calls...
Show moreThe thesis provides an in-depth analysis of Blumer's theoretical concepts, or root images, which constitute the theoretical framework of his symbolic interactionism. It is argued that the root images are consistent theoretical concepts in that they do not present a subjectivist, a voluntaristic, an astructural, and a microsociological bias. A study of the application of Blumer's root images to his substantive research is developed along a classification of social groups into what Blumer calls "collectivities", i.e. elementary collective groups (the crowd, the mass, the public) and social movements, and "organizations", i.e. labor unions and management organizations. The analysis shows the validity of symbolic interactionism as a macrosociological theory. It nevertheless suggests some theoretical refinements as to the symbolic interactionist treatment of macro social groups.
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- 1993
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14888
- Subject Headings
- Blumer, Herbert,--1900-1987--Criticism and interpretation, Symbolic interactionism
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The pathologizing of love: A sociological analysis of codependency.
- Creator
- Irvine, Leslie J., Florida Atlantic University, Appleton, Lynn M., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Sociology
- Abstract/Description
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A theory is developed to account for the emergence of the phenomenon of codependency. Codependency is targeted primarily at women since inequality constrains women from self-development outside relationships. It is argued that women experience relative deprivation and seek a socially acceptable way to avoid self-blame. Codependency's emergence in the late 1980s can be partly attributed to efforts of the recovery movement to secure legitimacy as agents of social control. The theory is tested...
Show moreA theory is developed to account for the emergence of the phenomenon of codependency. Codependency is targeted primarily at women since inequality constrains women from self-development outside relationships. It is argued that women experience relative deprivation and seek a socially acceptable way to avoid self-blame. Codependency's emergence in the late 1980s can be partly attributed to efforts of the recovery movement to secure legitimacy as agents of social control. The theory is tested by examining the emergence of the nineteenth-century illness called neurasthenia. It is argued that both codependency and neurasthenia are metaphors for female discontent. The particular expressions taken by discontent are largely determined by agents of social control.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1992
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14799
- Subject Headings
- Co-dependence (Psychology), Women--Mental health--Sociological aspects, Love, Relationship addiction
- Format
- Document (PDF)