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Smith, Paige Hall; White, Jacquelyn W.; Moracco, Kathryn E. – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2009
A conceptualization of gendered interpersonal aggression that is grounded in the social ecological framework is presented to explicate factors in adolescents' gendered environments that give rise to aggression and victimization. The focus is on gendered social structures and social networks. Our framework for prevention suggests that violence…
Descriptors: Prevention, Social Networks, Gender Bias, Aggression
Lyon, Alexandra; Bell, Michael; Croll, Nora Swan; Jackson, Randall; Gratton, Claudio – Rural Sociology, 2010
Justifiably concerned about power dynamics between researchers and participants in participatory research, much of the literature proposes guidelines for including participant voices at every step of the research process. We find these guidelines insufficient for dealing with constraints set up by the social organizational structures in which…
Descriptors: Participatory Research, Guidelines, Researchers, Research Methodology
Blackwell, Maylei – Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 2010
Based on a collaborative ethnography with Lideres Campesinas, a state-wide farmworker women's organization in California, this essay explores how activists have created multi-issued organizing strategies grounded in family structures and a community-based social world. Building on Gloria Anzaldua's theory of nepantla, it illustrates how campesina…
Descriptors: Females, Ethnography, Global Approach, Organizations (Groups)
Holliday, Adrian – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2010
Despite their diverse national backgrounds, 28 interviewees speak similarly about the complexity of the cultural realities with which they live, and refuse to be pinned down to specific cultural types. While nation is of great importance, unless personally inspiring, it tends to be an external force which is in conflict with a wide variety of…
Descriptors: Social Action, Social Structure, Theory Practice Relationship, Interviews
Webbink, Ellen; Smits, Jeroen; de Jong, Eelke – Social Indicators Research, 2013
We develop a new theoretical framework that explains the engagement in child labor of children in developing countries. This framework distinguishes three levels (household, district and nation) and three groups of explanatory variables: Resources, Structure and Culture. Each of the three groups refers to another strand of the literature;…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Anthropology, Rural Areas, Developing Nations
Rogers, Luke – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2011
Computer-based clinical simulations are a powerful teaching and learning tool because of their ability to expand healthcare students' clinical experience by providing practice-based learning. Despite the benefits of traditional computer-based clinical simulations, there are significant issues that arise when incorporating them into a flexible,…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Nursing Students, Learning Strategies, Social Structure
Kullberg, Agneta; Timpka, Toomas; Svensson, Tommy; Karlsson, Nadine; Lindqvist, Kent – Journal of Community Psychology, 2010
The authors used a mixed methods approach to examine if the reputation of a housing area has bearing on residential wellbeing and social trust in three pairs of socioeconomically contrasting neighborhoods in a Swedish urban municipality. Multilevel logistic regression analyses were performed to examine associations between area reputation and…
Descriptors: Urban Areas, Neighborhoods, Trust (Psychology), Reputation
Watson, Laurel B.; Robinson, Dawn; Dispenza, Franco; Nazari, Negar – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2012
The purpose of our study was to investigate African American women's experiences with sexual objectification. Utilizing grounded theory methodology as well as Black feminist thought and objectification theory as the research lenses, the results of this study uncovered how racist, sexist, and classist ideologies contributed to sexual…
Descriptors: Females, Gender Bias, Slavery, Ideology
Gaziel, Haim H. – European Journal of Education, 2012
The purpose of this study is to seek to understand the process of privatisation and deregulation of Israel's higher education system which had been until the late 20th century predominantly public. Since 1994, public and governmental agencies became major clients of private universities. Thus the public sector played a major role in the expansion…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Higher Education, Private Sector, Universities
Mocombe, Paul C. – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2011
Examining the social attitudes and practical consciousness of young black American youth through an analysis of the 1999 rap song, "Bling bling," by the Hot Boyz, in this work, I review the oppositional culture hypothesis as it pertains to the black/white achievement gap, describe the current debate, and reinterpret the hypothesis within a…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, African American Students, Social Attitudes, Underachievement
Garoutte, Lisa; Bobbitt-Zeher, Donna – Teaching Sociology, 2011
Budget exercises are frequently used in introductory and social problems courses to facilitate student understanding of income inequality. But do these exercises actually lead to greater sociological understanding? To explore this issue, the authors studied undergraduate students enrolled in introductory sociology courses during the 2008-2009…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Introductory Courses, Sociology, Student Attitudes
Hickman, Heather; Hoffman, Lauren – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2011
This case looks at an urban high school and the interaction among teachers and administrators regarding the issue of language use at the school. Specifically, the teacher involved challenges heteronormative language. The case is intended to spark critical self-reflection, reflection of institutional norms, analysis of ways in which the status quo…
Descriptors: Democracy, Discourse Analysis, Social Structure, Policy Analysis
Lea, Tess; Wegner, Aggie; McRae-Williams, Eva; Chenhall, Richard; Holmes, Catherine – Ethnography and Education, 2011
This interpretive study explores the relationship between spatial qualities and school-parent engagement in three primary schools which serve low income periurban Indigenous families in north Australia. Drawing from interviews with educators and parents, school-based observations and community fieldwork conducted over the course of two years in…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Low Income, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries
Chavez, Minerva S. – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2012
This article investigates the role of autoethnographic research as the methodological tool of choice for a Chicana who positions herself along the liminal perspective. I posit that "testimonios", autobiographical educational experiences, must be used as valid ethnographic research to contribute to existing knowledge around issues of…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Race, Equal Education, Educational Research
Slagle, Tisha Anne – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Catastrophes like Katrina destroy a community's critical infrastructure--a situation that instigates several dilemmas. Immediately, the community experiences information disruption within the community, as well as between the community and the outside world. The inability to communicate because of physical or virtual barriers to information…
Descriptors: Information Needs, Information Science, Information Sources, Natural Disasters