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MacKay, Gail A. – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2010
On a chilly Toronto evening in November 2005, an envelope was opened in a darkened auditorium, and the words spoken reached out across the land to Muskoday First Nation in Saskatchewan. No doubt Lindsay Knight's family was watching the televised Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards that night and would have felt elated to hear her being honored with…
Descriptors: Social Structure, Values, Foreign Countries, Social Environment
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Forsey, Martin – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2010
Based mainly on my own ethnographic research, which is committed to uncovering the constructed or "practiced" nature of social life, I seek to demonstrate the ways in which Australian school teachers, administrators, students and parents are engaged in a re-productive process that simultaneously reinforces and reinvents schools and…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Social Life, Ethnography, Educational Environment
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Weiner, Gaby – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2008
This paper considers Olive Banks' work on charting the history and development of British feminism, and particularly her use of collective biography as a research and analytic tool. It is argued that while this has been seen as the least "fashionable" aspect of her work, it took forward C. Wright Mills' contention for one definition of…
Descriptors: Feminism, Research Methodology, Biographies, Foreign Countries
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Duncan, Janine – Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and Practice, 2011
The purpose of this paper is to establish the unity between the missions of the Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS) discipline and Catholic higher education by demonstrating relationships among (a) Catholic Social Teaching (CST) and the role of the service principle to FCS; (b) Catholic Intellectual Tradition (CIT) and the centrality of intellect…
Descriptors: Family Life Education, Consumer Science, Catholic Schools, Church Related Colleges
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Nash, Erika R.; Martin, Ian; Rowell, Lonnie; Hetherington, Peggy; Zgliczynski, Susan – Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and Practice, 2011
This paper examines the internationalization experiences of four school counseling faculty members in a counseling program at a Catholic university. Counseling in general and counseling schools have become a global profession. As a result, it is imperative for training programs to develop graduates who are culturally competent across the globe.…
Descriptors: Church Related Colleges, Catholic Schools, College Faculty, Counseling Services
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American Psychologist, 2009
Each year, the apportionment ballot is used to determine how many representatives each division and state, provincial, and territorial association will have on the Council of Representatives. The system is described in Article V, Sections 6 and 7, of the American Psychological Association (APA) "Bylaws". Briefly, all APA fellows, members, and…
Descriptors: Voting, Psychology, Group Membership, Professional Associations
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Kahn, Peter – International Journal for Academic Development, 2009
In this study, we investigate the interplay between context and agency for three early-career academics as they seek to develop their teaching. Our analysis is conducted in light of Archer's realist social theory, framed by critical realism. We argue that it is possible to see ways in which Archer's account of the interplay between structure and…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Social Theories, Professional Development, Agency Role
Kemeny, M. Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Using the conceptual model of social structure and personality framework (House, 1981) as a theoretical guide, this cross sectional mixed-method design examined how organizational structure and culture relate to practices for training direct care workers in 328 aging and disability network service provider organizations in Pennsylvania. To…
Descriptors: Social Structure, Staff Development, Personality, Organizational Culture
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Unger, Rhoda K.; Sheese, Kate; Main, Alexandra S. – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2010
We look at women leaders in the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) as a case study to explore the roots of second wave feminist leadership in psychology and its impact on the acceptance of gender as an important part of the field. Although all psychological organizations excluded many women from leadership until the…
Descriptors: Cohort Analysis, Females, Ideology, Social Change
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Bittman, Michael; Ironmonger, Duncan – Social Indicators Research, 2011
The article provides an overview of the development of the field of time use studies. It provides an intellectual history charting the various interests that have shaped the growing applications of this broad social indicator. Recent applications, reflected in this special issue, are (a) interpreting the meaning of leisure, time; (b) the social…
Descriptors: Intellectual History, Use Studies, Social Status, Environmental Education
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Na, Zhuo – International Education Studies, 2008
The special geographical location Russia lies in creates the unique character of the Russian nation. Based on the dual nature of the Russian national character, the Russian geographical environment and the analysis of its social structure, this text tries to explore the reasons of the dual nature of Russian national character.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Structure, Geographic Location, Personality
Sullivan, Joseph F. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study utilizes the basic framework of classical sociology as a foundation for examining the intersection of the structural history of the computer revolution with ordinary, everyday life. Just as the classical forefathers of modern sociology--Marx, Durkheim, and Weber--attempted to understand their eras of structural transformation, this…
Descriptors: Social History, Social Structure, Sociology, Social Change
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Freund, Peter; Martin, George – Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 2009
The automobile is a key artifact for understanding the relationship between technology and society. As it has developed into a mass-produced and mass-consumed commodity, it has played an increasing role in social life and its built environments. In its most exaggerated manifestation, in parts of the United States, the car is a singular transport…
Descriptors: Ethics, Influence of Technology, Science and Society, Motor Vehicles
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Clayton, Ben; Beard, Colin; Humberstone, Barbara; Wolstenholme, Claire – Teaching in Higher Education, 2009
This paper presents a philosophy and method for an ongoing investigation into the cause and effect of student emotions in higher education. In particular, it presents the possibilities for exploring students' positive emotions as "jouissance" experiences linked to the transgression of power relations and social structures. The paper takes the form…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Emotional Response, Phenomenology, Psychological Patterns
Yoon, Sangseok – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study aims to provide a perspective which allows honorifics to be seen beyond the frame of politeness and/or formality in social structures. Korean school grammar explains honorifics as linguistic forms that reflect relative social positional difference (e.g., K-H. Lee, 2010), and has assumed that social structure and language use have a…
Descriptors: Korean, Language Styles, Social Status, Linguistics
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