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Chatman, Mary B. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Healthcare disparities and inequities have been at the forefront of the health agenda, thus supporting that minority healthcare is of poorer quality than that experienced by the majority population. Compounding this issue is the fact that our nation is growing more diverse. Only modest strides have been made to increase the diversity in the…
Descriptors: Surveys, Individual Characteristics, Community Characteristics, Self Efficacy
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Quillian, Lincoln; Pager, Devah – Social Psychology Quarterly, 2010
This paper considers the process by which individuals estimate the risk of adverse events, with particular attention to the social context in which risk estimates are formed. We compare subjective probability estimates of crime victimization to actual victimization experiences among respondents from the 1994 to 2002 waves of the Survey of Economic…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Stereotypes, Criminals, Racial Composition
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Larson, Calvin J. – Phylon, 1975
The stated purpose of this paper is to analyze comparatively perceptions of leadership in three black neighborhoods in a northwest Indiana city: studies such as this one are stated to be needed because black people have been physically and socially segregated in America, and frequently sufficiently isolated to be cut off from any meaningful…
Descriptors: Black Community, Black Leadership, Community Characteristics, Community Leaders
Mullen, Lawrence J. – 1997
A study of the relationship between two distinct, yet intertwined populations (a university community and its surrounding community), their media use, and the ties they have to their respective communities moves research in this area forward both theoretically and methodologically. The study examined three university mass media: newspaper,…
Descriptors: College Students, Community Characteristics, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education
England, J. Lynn; And Others – 1976
Sample populations from 15 Intermountain West communities (representative of population, ethnic, and employment variety) were surveyed to test the following hypotheses: (1) there is a greater degree of consensus in rural than in non-rural communities; (2) there are differences between values in rural and non-rural communities; (3) a model…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Attitudes, Community Characteristics, Comparative Analysis
General Electric Co., Washington, DC. TEMPO. – 1968
The aim of the study was to provide the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare with evidence as to the productivity of compensatory education (CE) programs for disadvantaged children, particularly the effects of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Act of 1965 during its first year and a half. Data were collected on pupil performance and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Rating, Achievement Tests, Community Characteristics