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Title: Interview with Alan Alford on Pearl City – ca. 1984 - 1985.
Creator: Alford, Alan (Interviewee), Evans, Arthur S. (Interviewer)
Abstract/Description: This interview is one in a series conducted from 1984-85 by sociologist Dr. Arthur Evans of Florida Atlantic University. The information gathered from these interviews was used for the compilation of “Pearl City, An Analysis of the Folk History,” by Sharon Wells, The Spanish River Papers, v. XV (1986-87) and the book Pearl City, Florida: A Black Community Remembers, by Dr. Arthur S. Evans, Jr. and David Lee (1990). In 1958 white resident Alan Alford and his wife, Lenore, established their...
Show moreThis interview is one in a series conducted from 1984-85 by sociologist Dr. Arthur Evans of Florida Atlantic University. The information gathered from these interviews was used for the compilation of “Pearl City, An Analysis of the Folk History,” by Sharon Wells, The Spanish River Papers, v. XV (1986-87) and the book Pearl City, Florida: A Black Community Remembers, by Dr. Arthur S. Evans, Jr. and David Lee (1990). In 1958 white resident Alan Alford and his wife, Lenore, established their home in Boca Raton. From 1960 – 66 Al served as Assistant City Manager of Boca Raton; 1966 – 1972 as City Manager; and held office as Mayor from 1973 – 1975 as a member of the “Three A’s” in the city’s government: Al Alford, Bill Archer and Dave Ashe.
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Date Issued: 1984-1985
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAU53702
Subject Headings: Oral histories -- Florida, Pearl City (Boca Raton, Fla.) -- History, Oral history, Culture -- Study and teaching -- Interviews, African Americans -- Florida -- History
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Title: Interview with Lois Dolphus Martin on Pearl City – ca. 1984 - 1985.
Creator: Martin, Lois Dolphus (Interviewee), Evans, Arthur S. (Interviewer), Boca Raton Historical Society
Date Issued: 1984-1985
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAU53706
Subject Headings: Oral histories -- Florida, Pearl City (Boca Raton, Fla.) -- History, Oral history, Culture -- Study and teaching -- Interviews, African Americans -- Florida -- History
Format: Set of related objects

Title: Interview with George Spain on Pearl City – ca. 1984 - 1985.
Creator: Spain, George (Interviewee), Evans, Arthur S. (Interviewer), Boca Raton Historical Society
Date Issued: 1984-1985
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAU53689
Subject Headings: Oral histories -- Florida, Pearl City (Boca Raton, Fla.) -- History, Oral history, Culture -- Study and teaching -- Interviews, African Americans -- Florida -- History
Format: Set of related objects

Title: Interview with Q. J. (Bud) Jackson – ca. 1984 - 1985.
Creator: Jackson, Q. J. (Bud) (Interviewee), Evans, Arthur S. (Interviewer), Boca Raton Historical Society
Date Issued: 1984-1985
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAjacksonbset
Subject Headings: Oral histories -- Florida, Pearl City (Boca Raton, Fla.) -- History, Oral history, Culture -- Study and teaching -- Interviews, African Americans -- Florida -- History
Format: Set of related objects

Title: Interview with Irene Demery Carswell and Archie L. Carswell – ca. 1984 - 1985.
Creator: Carswell, Irene Demery (Interviewee), Carswell, Archie L. (Interviewee), Evans, Arthur S. (Interviewer), Boca Raton Historical Society
Date Issued: 1984-1985
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAU165281
Subject Headings: Oral histories -- Florida, Pearl City (Boca Raton, Fla.) -- History, Oral history, Culture -- Study and teaching -- Interviews, African Americans -- Florida -- History
Format: Set of related objects

Title: Interview with Amos Jackson – ca. 1984 - 1985.
Creator: Jackson, Amos (Interviewee), Evans, Arthur S. (Interviewer), Boca Raton Historical Society
Date Issued: 1984-1985
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAjacksonaset
Subject Headings: Oral histories -- Florida, Pearl City (Boca Raton, Fla.) -- History, Oral history, Culture -- Study and teaching -- Interviews, African Americans -- Florida -- History
Format: Set of related objects

Title: The bureaucratic system: A positive or negative effect on nursing home quality of care?.
Creator: Lipsman, Lisa A., Florida Atlantic University, Evans, Arthur S.
Abstract/Description: Over the last fifty years quality of care has been a consistent problem in nursing home facilities. The federal government implemented a bureaucratic system as an attempt to improve this standard. This thesis traces the emergence of this system in nursing homes and illustrates its failure to solve the problem. George Ritzer's four-point McDonaldization model of bureaucracy is applied to argue that the bureaucratic system for governing nursing homes has a negative effect on the quality of care...
Show moreOver the last fifty years quality of care has been a consistent problem in nursing home facilities. The federal government implemented a bureaucratic system as an attempt to improve this standard. This thesis traces the emergence of this system in nursing homes and illustrates its failure to solve the problem. George Ritzer's four-point McDonaldization model of bureaucracy is applied to argue that the bureaucratic system for governing nursing homes has a negative effect on the quality of care. Although this hypothesis has proven to be accurate, additional factors were consistently cited as having detrimental effects on resident care. These include issues such as insufficient pay and lack of training/education for CNAs. Moreover, human greed and societal views of the elderly appear to be the true root of the problem.
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Date Issued: 2004
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13148
Subject Headings: Long-term care of the sick--Quality control, Nursing home care--Quality control, Outcome assessment (Medical care), Long-term care facilities--Standards
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A labor approach to the development of the self or "modern personality": The case of public education.
Creator: Mocombe, Paul C., Florida Atlantic University, Evans, Arthur S.
Abstract/Description: Max Weber, Karl Mannheim, and Karl Marx suggested that there is a relationship between economic and political institutions and that behaviors and attitudes are influenced by this. Viewing this postulate as a conception which posits the economic mode of production as the locus of causality for culture, this examination of capitalism as culture, investigates how education and its pedagogical techniques, as a means of "enculturation," reflects the capitalist economic mode of production. Building...
Show moreMax Weber, Karl Mannheim, and Karl Marx suggested that there is a relationship between economic and political institutions and that behaviors and attitudes are influenced by this. Viewing this postulate as a conception which posits the economic mode of production as the locus of causality for culture, this examination of capitalism as culture, investigates how education and its pedagogical techniques, as a means of "enculturation," reflects the capitalist economic mode of production. Building on the theoretical notions in the Sociology of knowledge and Structuralism, this hermeneutical analysis discusses how pedagogical techniques and curriculum arrangements of public schools in capitalist societies correlate with the organization of labor (for it is that role of the self which is dominant in capitalist societies). Data for this research was gathered through the content analysis of pedagogical techniques and curriculum arrangements adopted by The School Board of Broward County, Florida. Results show that the current shift in the organization of labor (from industrial to post-industrial) parallels, and therefore correlates with, the shift in curriculum and pedagogical arrangements' of The School Board of Broward County, Florida; as such it is a legitimate claim to suggest that the socialization of the self is determined by its relation to the mode of production.
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Date Issued: 2001
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12765
Subject Headings: Educational sociology, Personality, Socialization, Social psychology
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The Confederate Flag Controversy in South Carolina: A Test of Herbert Blumer's Race Prejudice as a Sense of Group Position Theory.
Creator: Bostwick, Heather L., Evans, Arthur S., Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: This thesis examines the sociological factors underlying the development of a Confederate Countermovement, which has resulted in a Confederate Flag controversy in South Carolina. In order to account for this development, a test of Herbert Blumer's race prejudice as a sense of group position theory was conducted. Blumer's theory holds that when dominant racial groups perceive a threat to their proprietary claims from a subordinate group, they will emotionally recoil from the potential loss of...
Show moreThis thesis examines the sociological factors underlying the development of a Confederate Countermovement, which has resulted in a Confederate Flag controversy in South Carolina. In order to account for this development, a test of Herbert Blumer's race prejudice as a sense of group position theory was conducted. Blumer's theory holds that when dominant racial groups perceive a threat to their proprietary claims from a subordinate group, they will emotionally recoil from the potential loss of privilege. Using content analysis, the three major members of the Confederate Countermovement were analyzed. Results confirmed the usefulness of Blumer's theory for understanding this controversy. By viewing the conflict as the last stand of a small group of whites, efforts can be directed toward improving the position of blacks without generating countermovement action and bringing an end to the controversy.
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Date Issued: 2003
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000896
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Influence of ethnicity, relocation, and social integration on the decision to complete an Advance Medical Directive: A survey of Boca Raton retirees.
Creator: Frank, Abbott., Florida Atlantic University, Evans, Arthur S., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Sociology
Abstract/Description: 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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Date Issued: 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
Format: 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
Abstract/Description: 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.
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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
Format: Document (PDF)

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