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Hilton, Timothy; DeJong, Cornell – Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research, 2010
This study examines coping behaviors and felt experiences of homeless adults in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Data from in-depth interviews with 55 homeless adults reveal 5 general coping pattern groups: shelter users, campers, couch hoppers, mixed users, and circumstantial homeless. Homeless adults within each group experienced similar levels of…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Coping, Disadvantaged Environment, Rural Development
Donnelly, William L. – 1979
Organizational hostility plagued the entire 1972-1978 Experimental Schools (ES) program in Constantine, Michigan, and ultimately resulted in its failure. Constantine had a history of conflict between those residents advocating local control and those, mainly newcomers, advocating external intrusions into the community. When the ES program began,…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Community Attitudes, Community Cooperation, Conflict