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Social Thought and Research: Recent submissions
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INTERDISCIPLINARY VARIATIONS IN THE PERCEPTION OF POWER: A STUDY IN IDEOLOGY
(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1976-04-01)There have been marked disagreements in the literature on the structure of power in American society. The authors suggest that this controversy is an artifact of ideological differences between sociologists and political ... -
THE FUNERALIZATION PROCESS: TOWARD A MODEL OF SOCIAL TIME
(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1976-04-01)This paper attempts to describe, categorize, and analyze interactions between social actors and the temporal aspects of a specific social occasion. The burial process, as a social occasion, necessitates the coordination ... -
Mid-American Review of Sociology, Volume 1, Number 1 (SPRING, 1976): Front Matter
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The Protestant Ethic Thesis: An Internal Critque
(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1976-04-01)Max Weber's thesis of a relation between a Protestant ethic and a spirit of capitalism is examined. The Calvinist calling is taken as the central notion of Weber's thesis. Weber fails to demonstrate that the doctrine of ... -
IS DEPRIVATION LINGUISTIC? Suggested Changes for Teacher Training Programs Concerned with Black English
(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1973-10-01)A linguistic approach to Black English (BE), often called "difference theory," is preferable to its predecessors, but it cannot resolve many problems which exist for speakers of that dialect. Linguists disagree about the ... -
A PERSPECTIVE ON SOCIOLINGUISTICS
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Kansas Journal of Sociology, Volume 9, Number 2 (FALL, 1973): Front Matter
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Kansas Journal of Sociology, Volume 9, Number 2 (FALL, 1973): Back Matter
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SOME OBSERVATIONS ON SOCIOLINGUISTIC VARIATION AND AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE
(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1973-10-01)This paper attempts to make a case for the value of studying linguistic and social structures in the U.S. deaf community (and other communities) in a dynamic sociolinguistic framework by presenting a brief outline of the ... -
SOCIOLINGUISTICS AND LINGUISTIC GEOGRAPHY
(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1973-10-01)Sociolinguistics and linguistic geography should be considered as complementary rather than mutually contradictory approaches to the phenomena of language variation. Linguistic geography is a branch of historical linguistics ... -
BLACK ENGLISH AND THE AMERICAN VALUE SYSTEM
(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1973-10-01)The strategy of enlightened bi-dialectalism used by the schools in the United States to deal with the problem of Black English is a significant attempt at social engineering. This attempt is motivated by basic linguistic ... -
THE AMERICAN KOINE-ORIGIN, RISE, AND PLATEAU STAGE
(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1973-10-01)The early dialect history of the British immigrants to the United States involved a leveling process, leading to the formation of a koine. Reports from British travelers in the eighteenth century indicate a "striking ... -
ON LANGUAGE USE AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE
(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1973-10-01)The emerging field of sociolinguistics is a response to numerous roadblocks encountered in the more specific area of linguistics. One of the more important of these roadblocks occurred in attempts to provide a linguistic ... -
HISTORICAL, PROCEDURAL AND PEDAGOGICAL ASPECTS OF SOCIOLINGUISTICS
(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1973-10-01)A brief presentation is made concerning historical aspects of the development of sociol inguistics. Certain concepts and procedures used in data analysis are described and exemplified. And the application of sociolinguistics ... -
THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL AND LINGUISTIC PILGRIMAGE OF YIDDISH (SOME EXAMPLES OF FUNCTIONAL AND STRUCTURAL PIDGINIZATION AND DEPIDGINIZATION)
(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1973-10-01)The second in a series of case studies of societies in which the mother tongue is merely the process language but not target language of education. This paper reviews the changes in Yiddish orthography which have paralleled ... -
THE DECLINE OF PUBLIC CONCERN OVER THE ATOM BOMB
(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1973-04-01)The article discusses the reasons for the decline of the atom bomb and nuclear warfare as a public interest issue. It is hypothesized that the decline in public interest came at the point in history when Americans perceived ... -
SCIENTIFIC CREATIVITY AND DECENTRALIZED SOCIETIES: The Swiss Cantons and The Rise of The Social Sciences
(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1973-04-01)The productivity of a country in science as for as the numerical output of its scientific papers is concerned ls, in large measure, a by-product of its industrial producfivi ry, Such a purely quantitative approach may lead ... -
SOCIOLOGY OF CREATIVE BEHAVIOR: A Multi -Paradigmatic Confusion
(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1973-04-01)This paper seeks to clarify paradigmatic confusions extant in the sociologies of creative behovior, Scientific paradigms are recognized as the framework constituting the way a scientist sees and interprets the phenomena ... -
Kansas Journal of Sociology, Volume 9, Number 1 (SPRING, 1973): Front Matter
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VALUE PROBLEMS IN THE QUEST FOR SANCTION IN SOCIAL PLANNING
(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1973-04-01)At all stages in the social planning operation values play a decisive role. Dahn's six value dilemmas confronting the planner are explored, with two added: planner values are often indistinguishable from the escape from ...