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Social Thought and Research: Recent submissions
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You Are What You Eat: Some Thoughts on Consumption and Marxist Class Theory
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Conflict and Order: Implications for a Research Agenda
(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1990-01-01)Mysociological activities may appear to the untrained eye as scattered and unfocused. The subjects investigated have included status inconsistents, youth, terrorists, athletes, coaches, racial minorities, governments, ... -
It's Just as Easy to Marry a Rich Man as a Poor One! Students' Accounts of Parental Messages About Marital Partners
(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1990-01-01)What's happening in the 1980s concerning marital choices? Parents of today's college students were themselves seeking marital partners in the 1960s when traditional sexual norms were challenged including "living together" ... -
Solving the Bargaining Problem
(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1990-01-01)The bargainingproblem is here conceived as determining a point of final agreement in bilateral bargaining situations where there is an overlap in the interests of the parties. Several formal models for describing how persons ... -
Mid-American Review of Sociology, Volume 14, Number 1&2 (WINTER, 1990): Book Review
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Profit Seeking Organizations: Accumulation, Irrationality; Politics, and Organizational Change
(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1990-01-01)This essay is critical of traditional conceptions of organizations, which attempt to develop models and propositions that apply to all kinds of organizations, employ nomothetic ahistorical methods, or assume that organizational ... -
The Uninvited Researcher in Indian Country: Problems of Process and Product Conducting Research Among Native Americans
(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1990-01-01)This paper discusses what a researcher can expect when doing qualitative research in an American Indian community. Despite an attempt to adequately prepare for fieldwork, the author found that the research process differed ... -
Research Examining Impacts of Attempts to Change Patterns of Alcohol Consumption and Related Behaviors
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Mid-American Review of Sociology, Volume 14, Number 1&2 (WINTER, 1990): Front Matter
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Sociology and Charity: The 1899 Nebraska Lectures
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The Intellectual Legacy of Nebraska Sociology: A Bibliographical Chronology of Separately Published Works, 1887-1989
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The Foundations of an American Discipline: Edward A. Ross' Intellectual Work at the University of Nebraska, 1901-1906
(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1988-01-01)Edward Alsworth Ross (1866-1951) was appointed Professor of Sociology at the University of Nebraska during the spring of 1901, after being curtly dismissed from Stanford University the previous December in a controversial ... -
George E. Howard's Institutional Sociology of Marriage and Divorce
(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1988-01-01)In 1904, with the publication of A History of Matrimonial Institutions, George Elliott H?ward became an internationally recognized expert on ~amage and family. Howard's work marked the start of serious sociological studr ... -
Mid-American Review of Sociology, Volume 13, Number 2 (WINTER, 1988): Front Matter
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The Stranger at the Curb
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Research by Bureaucracy: Hattie Plum Williams and the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement, 1929-1931
(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1988-01-01)This paper explores the bureaucratized research activities (1929-1931) of the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement (NCLOE) from the perspective of Hattie Plum Williams' sociobiographical experience. Williams ... -
Sociology in the University of Nebraska, 1899-1927
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Obstacles to Collectivization Among Indigenous Communities: Two Venezuelan Cases
(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1988-01-01)State-sponsored programs of collectivization continue to gf!nerate a great deal of theory and policy debates. When Indian communities are involved inl such national programs, the debate acquires newer and even more complex ... -
The Social Psychology of Driving Behavior: Communicative Aspects of Joint-Action
(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1988-01-01)This paper identifies destiny-drivers, casual-cautious drivers, and socialoccasion drivers, as the primary participations in the driving environment, and argues that accidents occur when there is a breakdown in establishing ... -
Mid-American Review of Sociology, Volume 13, Number 1 (WINTER, 1988): Book Review
(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1988-01-01)