Mid-American Review of Sociology, Volume 14, Number 1&2 (WINTER, 1990)
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Africa on My Mind: Encounters in the Field
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A Question of Priority: Small at Chicago or Blackmar at Kansas?
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The Teaching Relationship: A Hypothesized Mental Model and Its Consequences
(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1990-01-01)It is proposed that people share a "mental model" of the student-teacher relationship, out of which develop unexamined expectations and attitudes that may be responsible for some long-standing problems of higher education. ... -
A Metatheoretical Analysis of Socioeconomics
(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1990-01-01)A good portion of the current debate over socio-economics and economic sociology has been framed in metatheoretical, particularly paradigmatic, terms. Having done a good deal of work in metatheory in general (Ritzer 1988, ... -
Notes From the History of American Sociology: Frank Blackmar's Last Years at KU
(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1990-01-01)Frank Wilson Blackmar (1854-1931) has been described as "one of the master builders of the University of Kansas" and "an outstanding figure in the world of the social sciences." Despite Blackmar's many accomplishments, he ... -
The Looking Glass Self: Introductory Notes on Anorexia Nervosa
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Mid-American Review of Sociology, Volume 14, Number 1&2 (WINTER, 1990): Book Review
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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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