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Biro, Ruth – 1981
This booklet contains materials that highlight Hungarian traditions and customs transplanted to America by Hungarian immigrants. The research and educational activities are designed for practical application in locating, recording, preserving, and analyzing resources on Hungarian American history, particularly those in the Pittsburgh…
Descriptors: Community Study, Ethnicity, Folk Culture, Immigrants
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Herzfeld, Michael – Ethnic Groups: An International Periodical of Ethnic Studies, 1980
Considers the idiom of ethnic discrimination in one small and extremely "closed" Greek village, with the object of demonstrating the artificiality of the prejudice-xenophobia distinction in an ethnographic context. Uses a "folk taxonomy" model which examines the relativistic sense in which group stereotypes are applied.…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Study, Ethnic Bias, Ethnic Stereotypes
Hoover, Dwight W. – Indiana Social Studies Quarterly, 1985
The history of Muncie's religious life in the 1920's and 1930's is examined as an illustration of what happened regarding churches and religion in the "typical" U.S. town. The ethnic and denominational mix and the changes in each are discussed. (RM)
Descriptors: Churches, Community Study, Ethnicity, Religion
Graham, Susan Brandt – Urban Anthropology, 1980
Anthropologists have often treated certain factors of community organization as given, rather than as potentially important variables to be investigated. Results of two community studies, however, suggest that community structure may be as important a variable to be investigated as either ethnicity or occupational status. (Author/GC)
Descriptors: Anthropology, Community Study, Employment Level, Ethnicity
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Rosales, F. Arturo – Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 1985
Analyzes the evolution of Mexican American identity in Houston's Chicano community. Describes immigrants' emphasis on community pride in "mexicanismo" and Mestizo-Indian heritage, abandonment of indigenous identity and demands for White status in 1930s and 1940s, and identification with racial minorities during the civil rights movement.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Study, Ethnic Studies, Ethnicity
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Reynolds, Richard J. – Childhood Education, 2005
Australia's indigenous population is made up of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, who each have distinctly different cultures. The former can be found in cities and towns and cross the vast reaches of rural and remote Australia; the latter inhabit the coastal islands off the northeast coast and adjacent mainland areas. According to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Investigations, Indigenous Populations, Cultural Differences
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Silverman, Carol J. – Urban Affairs Quarterly, 1986
Examines a dimension of neighboring that need not assume friendship as the role model. When the model assumes only a sense of connectedness as defining neighboring, then the residential correlation, shown in many studies between urbanism and neighboring, disappears. Theories of neighboring, study variables, methods, and analysis are discussed.…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Community Study, Ecological Factors, Environmental Influences
Sanders, Irwin T.; Morawska, Ewa T. – 1975
This monograph reviews literature on Polish Americans. Information was derived from sociological community studies, sociological and historical works, M.A. and Ph.D. dissertations, and theoretical and empirical studies dealing with ethnic groups. Listed in the bibliography are 302 works. The monograph is intended as a starting point for social…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Community Study, Cultural Background, Cultural Differences
Butler, Dennis G. – 1980
A telephone survey of area residents was conducted by the Coast Community College District during Spring 1980 to assess citizen awareness of the District's programs and to determine area educational needs. Approximately 4,800 individual telephone numbers were dialed to obtain completed interviews with 546 residents, representing a geographically…
Descriptors: Age, College Role, Community Colleges, Community Study
Clothier, Grant; And Others – 1978
This booklet discusses and offers solutions for some of the educational problems growing out of the diverse nature of schools in the United States. Chapter I describes the society as a multicultural one in which a wide discrepancy exists between ideals and practices. A multicultural society is made up of many groups with varying degrees of common…
Descriptors: Community Study, Cultural Awareness, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Guides
Nelson, Dale C. – 1977
Although ethnicity has generally been relegated to secondary status as an explanatory factor in urban political participation studies, this research hypothesizes that ethnicity plays a major role in determining communal political participation. Communal participation is defined as participation in which the individual acts in concert with or on…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Study, Cultural Pluralism, Data Analysis