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Besser, Terry L.; Recker, Nicholas; Agnitsch, Kerry – Rural Sociology, 2008
Economic shocks are sudden events causing a significant impact on the local economy. Disaster community literature predicts that community outcomes from shocks will depend on the kind of shock. Consensus crisis shocks will be followed by increases in social capital and quality of life. Corrosive community shocks will result in declines in these…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Municipalities, Quality of Life, Social Capital
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Parks, Marguerite W. – Multicultural Perspectives, 2006
"I am from a very small town in which almost the entire population is made up of White middle class society." This statement is a reoccurring theme of final Multicultural Education (MCE) papers by preservice teachers at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh (UW Oshkosh). Although this sounds like an innocuous statement, over the past 12…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Middle Class, Multicultural Education, Whites
Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children's Mental Health, 2004
"Data Trends" reports present summaries of research on mental health services for children and adolescents and their families. The article summarized in this "Data Trends" presents findings from research examining the influence of collective socialization, concentration of disadvantage, and prevalence of crime on conduct…
Descriptors: Youth, Socialization, Social Networks, Prosocial Behavior