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Peer reviewedMurdock, Steve H.; And Others – Rural Sociology, 1986
Uses survey data from Texas and North Dakota to examine characteristics of farmers experiencing financial stress and to assess relative utility of adoption/diffusion, structural, and ecological frameworks for explaining levels of farm financial stress. Finds theoretical frameworks inadequate to explain differences in financial conditions.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adoption (Ideas), Diffusion (Communication), Ecological Factors
Download full textFoster, Susan; DeCaro, Patricia Mudgett – 1990
Findings are presented from a study of social interactions between hearing-impaired and hearing college students living on one floor of a mainstreamed residence hall at the Rochester (New York) Institute of Technology, home of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf. Twelve ethnographic observations were completed, and interviews were…
Descriptors: Attitudes toward Disabilities, College Housing, College Students, Dormitories
