The purpose of this dissertation was to identify and analyze the social and political factors that affected two school closing decisions in the Cincinnati Public Schools and to develop recommendations for improving the process of making school closing decisions in the future. The procedure for conducting the study involved the preparation of case…

This book attempts to show how the relationship between the American daily press and other social institutions determines the press's definition of news, where it seeks news, and how that news is presented. Chapter 1 discusses news as a force of information, examines news as a sociological problem, and describes the difficulty of defining news.…

The dissertation explores criteria for evaluating the performance of trigger mechanisms for determining extended benefit payment periods. A review of the current law is made as well as a brief summary of legislation leading to its passage. A quantitative model using concepts from the Theory of Markov Chains is established which meets established…

Reading attitude has been of great concern since the 1960s. A sex-appropriate attitude toward reading can help learners become effective readers. A study compared the sex differences in attitudes toward reading among seven different Jewish groups. The groups included university students and adults from Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox…

Today's society, in large part, has granted public acknowledgment of the practice of homosexuality as an "alternative lifestyle" and as a valid expression of sexuality and self. However, there are men and women who, having engaged in an active homosexual lifestyle for varying lengths of time, feel regretful about their homosexuality and want to…

This dissertation traces the history of day care licensing standards in Texas from the beginnings in voluntary welfare organizations to the 1976 revisions. Chapter I gives an overview of the study. The beginnings and subsequent development of day care as it emerged from a multiplicity of child welfare and education concerns is traced in Chapter…

The author has presented a historical review of societal/industrial conditions affecting the development of manual education to determine if a need for change in industrial arts exists at the present time. Societal conditions, industrial conditions, and the resulting educational response are examined in: Russia (mid-19th century), Sweden (19th…

This study assesses the variation in the earnings determination process for male and female labor force participants. The analyses indicates that earnings differences are substantial, that they are related to demographic, socioeconomic and labor force participation factors and that, while these factors are differentially important for the two…

This study focused on the role played by two factors--interpersonal attractiveness of group members and pattern of distribution of task-relevant information--in forming an influence base in task-oriented discussion groups. For purposes of the study, members of discussion groups who were confederates in the study were assigned attitudinal…

The purpose of this research was to ascertain whether the process of political socialization as the transmission of the political culture through schools contributes to the persistence of the American political system in the black community. One hundred and sixty black urban and suburban individuals over age 18 comprised the sample population.…

This study investigated the effect of training in general semantics on social adjustment. Acting on the Whorfian Hypothesis that the language structures we use influence our feeling, thinking, and behaving and therefore our social adjustment, the Is of Identity Test and Uncritical Inference Test were used as measures of social adjustment. The…

The Rokeach Value Survey was administered to a randomly selected group of first year students, the faculty and the administration of a private, four-year college located in a semi-rural area in Puerto Rico. The purpose of the test was to determine how congruent were the values held by the members of the college community with those implied by the…

The purpose of this study was to investigate communication similarities and differences between the male and female representatives in the present session of the Michigan House of Representatives, in four aspects of communication behavior: allocation of communication time, floor debate, committee deliberation, and constituent communication. The…

This dissertation explores the storytelling abilities and story repertoire of children from a sixth-grade class in Gosport, Indiana. The history and present nature of Gosport are first examined, to indicate community and social influences on the children's story repertoire. The children's repertoire, presented in an annotated collection, includes…

This study investigated the relationship of the combined factors of family structure, socioeconomic status, and pupil gender' to reading readiness scores. Specifically, the study attempted to determine if there were significant differences among mean reading readiness scores when pupils were grouped by family structure; socioeconomic status;…