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Johnstad, Petter G. – Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research, 2018
The use of entheogenic drugs in spiritual contexts among modern Westerners remains an understudied phenomenon. In order to explore these clandestine spiritual practices, 26 anonymous members of an internet discussion fora were interviewed regarding entheogen use and asked to describe their entheogen experiences. Interviewees self-selected for…
Descriptors: Drug Use, Spiritual Development, Computer Mediated Communication, Group Discussion
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Menna, Agostino – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2012
This study begins to develop a way to measure the returns and benefits of education using a standard of living and quality of life approach. It sought identification of school priorities among senior level managers at postsecondary institutions in Ontario, Canada, and found that these administrators prioritized standard of living over quality of…
Descriptors: Educational Benefits, Living Standards, Quality of Life, Foreign Countries
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Haveman, Robert; Heinrich, Carolyn; Smeeding, Timothy – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2012
In this paper, the authors first discuss the Neumark and Troske piece, and then compare the U.S. context to that in Europe and Korea, as described by the Caspar, Hartwig, and Moench and the Cho and Shin contributions. Although they are in basic agreement with Neumark and Troske on the extent and depth of the current employment situation, they…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Policy, Labor Market, Employment
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Muir, Kristy; Goldblatt, Beth – Disability & Society, 2011
United Nation's conventions exist to help facilitate and protect vulnerable people's human rights: including people with disabilities (Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 2006) and children (Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989). However, for some families where a family member has a disability, there may be inherent…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Disabilities, International Law, Treaties
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Braathen, Stine Hellum; Kvam, Marit Hoem – Disability & Society, 2008
The aim of this article is to give an overview of the daily life stories of 23 women with disabilities in Malawi. The stories were gained through qualitative interviews that covered aspects of being a woman and living with a disability in Malawi. Recent studies from countries in southern Africa have documented how people with disabilities…
Descriptors: Females, Disabilities, Foreign Countries, Biographies
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Arthur, Nancy; Flynn, Sarah – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2011
This research focused on the career decision and planning needs of a unique group of migrants: international students who are completing their studies as temporary immigrants and who are embarking on the career journey of employment and permanent immigration. A semi-structured interview employing a Critical Incident Technique was used to assess…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Graduate Students, Living Standards, Interviews
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Rova, Lindita; Mano, Romeo – Journal of Applied Quantitative Methods, 2009
The quality of life is a relatively new concept, which is continually changing and for which there is not yet a wholly satisfactory definition. The quality of life involves human, social-economic and health characteristics. The manifold nature of the quality of life led to the development of various patterns for measuring it. The quality of life…
Descriptors: Social Life, Living Standards, Community Involvement, Quality of Life
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Maoyuan, Pan – Chinese Education and Society, 2007
The strength or weakness of a nation and advances in the material and spiritual civilization of society as a whole are, to a large extent, determined by the quantity and quality of personnel equipped with a higher education. Also, people's need for undergoing higher education increases as the national economy develops and standards of living in…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Living Standards, Foreign Countries, Educational Trends
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Popp, Sandra; Schels, Brigitte – Journal of Youth Studies, 2008
This article examines the connection between multiple deprivations and the subjective experience of social exclusion among young German state benefit recipients in 2005. Most studies equate deprivation with social exclusion. But current German concepts refer to an experienced constraint of inclusion and participation as well: multiply-deprived…
Descriptors: Employment, Foreign Countries, Social Isolation, Disadvantaged Environment
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Eshpanova, D. D.; Nysanbaev, A. N. – Russian Education and Society, 2006
The social development of young people is a single, continuous process, the objective of which is for young people to absorb the social experience accumulated by preceding generations and to renovate that experience in qualitative ways and transmit it to future generations. In as much as it is a component of more general processes of the reforming…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Foreign Countries, Social Development, Social Status
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Olafsdottir, Sigrun – Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 2007
Research has established that those with higher social status have better health. Less is known about whether this relationship differs cross-nationally and whether it operates similarly across different institutional arrangements. To examine the relationship between stratification and health, two Western, industrialized societies at opposite ends…
Descriptors: Social Status, Marital Status, Student Attitudes, Living Standards
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Walls, Richard T. – Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, 1982
Analyzed the relationship between access to social welfare programs and the extent potential rehabilitants pursue vocational rehabilitation. Vocational rehabilitation clients (N=200) completed a benefit survey. Benefits variables were consistently related to vocational rehabilitation outcome variables. The more sources of benefits, the less likely…
Descriptors: Counseling Effectiveness, Disabilities, Economic Factors, Employment
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McAuley, Alastair – Economics, 1991
Discusses the state of the Soviet economy during the period of perestroika. Includes the level of output, rate of inflation, privatization, and proposals for economic reform. Assesses the stabilization program and possibilities of restructuring. Concludes that neither Mikhail Gorbachev nor perestroika are likely to survive the trials of inflation,…
Descriptors: Economic Change, Economics, Employment, Foreign Countries
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Aseltine, Robert H., Jr.; Gore, Susan – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2005
Through a two-wave panel study of emerging adults, the authors examine how living situation, work and school roles, and experiences in those roles affect psychosocial functioning following the transition from high school. Enrollment in college programs and fulltime work are associated with lower levels of depressed mood and more positive quality…
Descriptors: Quality of Life, Living Standards, Depression (Psychology), Alcohol Abuse
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Mkrtchian, Gamlet M. – Russian Education and Society, 2006
In this study, the author examines the factors that permit young people's inclusion in market relations in the "spheres of education, employment (in the labor market), and consumption." The data for this study are drawn from a city wide representative survey in Moscow of the Association for Socioeconomics and the Institute of Problems of…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Employment, Foreign Countries, Social Stratification