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Exploration of Japanese women's patterns of educational attainment : the effect of gender of siblings

Creator:: Michinobu, Toshiyuki
Abstract:: Guided by the emerging interest in gender of siblings as one important sociological component in American family studies, the major objective of this study was to examine the effect of sex composition of siblings on women's levels of educational attainment in the Japanese setting. The present study hypothesized that the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Effect of Gender of Siblings. Abstract approved Rebecca L. Warner Guided by the emerging interest

The Yakima Indians : study and analysis of the Yakima water rights

Creator:: Selam, Leroy Bennie
Abstract:: This thesis is an ethnohistoric study of the water rights of the Yakima Confederated Tribes. The study considers the water rights issues of the Yakimas from the cultural viewpoint at the time of European contact to the present legal and political situation. It traces the many obstacles the Yakimas have...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

When Celilo was Celilo : an analysis of salmon use during the past 11,000 years in the Columbia Plateau

Creator:: Thomison, Patrick
Abstract:: The presence and significance of salmon for prehistoric and aboriginal people of the Columbia Plateau is a matter of considerable debate among anthropologists, archaeologists and historians. Data from over 100 archaeological sites are scrutinized in the light of an example salmon fishery developed from ethnographic and archaeological information on aboriginal...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Design Thinking as a Framework to Maximize Learning Foreign Languages in Online Environments

Creator:: Beged-Dov, Yael
Abstract:: In this qualitative case study, the implementation of a student-centered model of teaching, “Design Thinking, is explored to understand the difficulties learners experience when studying a foreign language in formal learning environments. This study suggests that excessive concentration on factors of grammar, translation, pronunciation, vocabulary, and lack of speech activity...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: second language (L2) or a foreign language (F/L) in an implicit, subconscious way and within an

The Emerging Church Movement: An Exploratory Case Study of Its Environmental and Political Attitudes

Creator:: McKelvie, Loni M.
Abstract:: To date, no investigation of the Emerging Church Movement has made an effort to examine the environmental and political views of its members. Despite the vast research on the politics and environmental opinions of American evangelicals, little is known about where the majority of members of the Emerging Church Movement...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: liberal” (Smith & Johnson, 2010, p. 353) and that there was “no statistical difference between young and

Spousal Violence: An Exploration of the Interrelationships of Fundamentalist Protestant Religious Discourse, Women's Economic Dependency and Violent Conflict in Marital Relationships

Creator:: Goetz, Kathryn W.
Abstract:: Violence within marital dyads is a problem with deep historic roots in American culture. Although the family is idealized as a safe and loving haven from a cruel world, this ideal is often not achieved by many couples. This study develops an integrated theoretical perspective that combines feminist theory and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: & 11 Straus, 1990; Pagelow & Johnson, 1988; Martin, 1985; Martin, 1983; Dobash & Dobash, 1979; Walker

Gender Implications of Small Scale Urban Trade in Ukraine

Creator:: Kirillova, Lyudmila A.
Abstract:: This research project examines the growing informal sector of Ukrainian economy and the way global economic changes affect women's lives. It has been noticed by many Western researchers that women have been among the hardest hit by economic restructuring in Eastern Europe. Marginalization from the official labor force led a...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Johnson Osirim brings up a definition that she believes is the earliest and most widely recognized

The natural history of public works development

Creator:: Robertson, Robert A.
Abstract:: A case study of the Eugene Water and Electric Board's planning for the Minto Hydroelectric is examined in terms of social movement theory. It is hypothesized that public works projects have a significant likeness to a social movement and they conform in their essential ingredients to social movement explanations. The...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: development in the area was by the O'Neil brothers, Edward and Frank, who later were joined by L. W

Factors in the Selection of Home Birth : A Comparative Study of Birthing Alternatives in Western Oregon

Creator:: Fuhr-Dunn, Susan D.
Abstract:: Increasing demand for home birth has created an upheaval in the American medical profession and, is a controversial political and legal issue as well. This research, utilizing ethnographic, historical, and survey data analyzes contemporary home birth. A review of the so called "medicalization" of childbirth is presented noting that the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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Exploration of Japanese women's patterns of educational attainment : the effect of gender of siblings

The Yakima Indians : study and analysis of the Yakima water rights

When Celilo was Celilo : an analysis of salmon use during the past 11,000 years in the Columbia Plateau

Design Thinking as a Framework to Maximize Learning Foreign Languages in Online Environments

The Emerging Church Movement: An Exploratory Case Study of Its Environmental and Political Attitudes

Spousal Violence: An Exploration of the Interrelationships of Fundamentalist Protestant Religious Discourse, Women's Economic Dependency and Violent Conflict in Marital Relationships

Gender Implications of Small Scale Urban Trade in Ukraine

The natural history of public works development

Factors in the Selection of Home Birth : A Comparative Study of Birthing Alternatives in Western Oregon

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