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Weiss, Melford S. – Journal of Social Issues, 1977
This paper comments on an anthropologist's field experience with a Chinese community in an American city. This particular community had mixed feelings about being studied, was composed of competing groups, and overtly attempted to manipulate the anthropologist's participation in community affairs. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Anthropology, Chinese Americans, Community Characteristics, Community Influence
Johns, Richard P. – C.S.P.A.A. Bulletin, 1978
Shows advisers of student publications how to develop a school/community profile to aid in identifying characteristics and needs of their publications' audiences; urges advisers to keep in touch with current journalistic ideas and trends. (GW)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Community Characteristics, Faculty Advisers, High Schools
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Bohlin, Karl M.; Ironside, R. Geoffrey – Journal of Leisure Research, 1976
When residents of a large city buy or rent cottages at a near-by resort area, very few economic benefits accrue to the local community since major, large expenditures are made in the city. The problem and possible solutions are discussed in this article. (JD)
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Consumer Economics, Dropouts, Economic Factors
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Fry, Douglas P. – Child Development, 1988
Compares patterns of play and serious aggression in three- to eight-year-old children of two neighboring Zapotec Indian communities that have different levels of adult violence. Results suggest that community differences in violence levels are perpetuated as Zapotec children learn community-appropriate patterns to express aggression and continue…
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior Patterns, Community Characteristics, Parent Child Relationship
Coleman, James S. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1985
When the parents of school age children have significant relationships with their children's schoolmates, a particularly strong school-community relationship forms. Public schools in the United States are best organized to serve such functional, neighborhood communities, which are rapidly disappearing. School reorganization might renew community…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Community Involvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Group Dynamics
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Richardson, Joseph L.; Larson, Olaf F. – Rural Sociology, 1976
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Facilities, Longitudinal Studies, Population Trends
Pebley, Anne R.; Vaiana, Mary E. – 2002
This study examined the status of children in three Los Angeles, California neighborhoods, taking information from the 1998 Focused Study of Children and Neighborhoods, which involved 91 families. After discussing reasons to care about neighborhoods and suggesting that neighborhoods are the foundation upon which the basic social and economic…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Community Characteristics, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Income
Statewide Initiative News, 2002
Rural and urban family literacy programs share similar challenges in helping families work through obstacles to participation, such as transportation and childcare. However, the scope and nature of these challenges and the program management strategies to deal with them differ in rural and urban settings. Some of the most creative solutions to…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Community Characteristics, Delivery Systems, Family Literacy
Bennett, Pamela J., Ed. – Indiana Historian: A Magazine Exploring Indiana History, 1998
This magazine provides resources and models for the study of Indiana state and local history to encourage students to know more about the history of their communities and the state of Indiana. It is aimed at readers of all ages. The topics featured in this issue are: land, people, governance, emblems, heritage, commerce and industry, and…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Community Characteristics, Elementary Secondary Education, Heritage Education
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Crookston, Burns B. – Personnel and Guidance Journal, 1974
Developing an operational model based on social psychological theory, the author advocates the creation of an intentional democratic community in college residence halls. His model presents ten elements of the community that must be manipulated, nine design considerations, and seven stages of development. (Author/LA)
Descriptors: College Environment, College Housing, College Students, Community Characteristics
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Orellana, S.; Carlos, L. – Human Organization, 1973
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Community Control, Government Role, Group Structure
Kern, Howard M.; Jacobson, Wayne E. – Community Ment Health J, 1969
Describes Maryland program in which senior psychiatric residents work one day a week for a year as consultants to health departments, in effort to prepare them more adequately for work in the community. (CJ)
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Community Health Services, Community Programs, Consultants
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Winkel, Gary H. – Science Teacher, 1971
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Ecology, Environment, Environmental Education
Spicer, Edward H. – Hum Organ, 1970
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Community Problems, Hostility, Industrialization
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England, J. Lynn; And Others – Rural Sociology, 1979
Historically rural society has been viewed as being characterized by a concensus on a set of values unique to rural life. Data gathered from random samples of 15 communities in the intermountain West suggests, in general, that rurality and social stratification need to be integrated into a theory of values. (BR)
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Industrialization, Maturation, Measurement Techniques
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