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Everyday Movement Against Capitalism : Prospects for a Prefigurative Strategy toward Open Utopia

Creator:: Riccio, Alexander
Abstract:: Across the U.S. social activism is on the upsurge, offering possibilities for a revolution against capitalism. However, these possibilities are potentially undermined by entrenched factionalism amongst the left. At root, such in-fighting is fostered by the creation of false dualistic frameworks on the transition out of capitalism and into the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ Robert D. Thompson, Jr. Across the U.S. social activism is on the upsurge, offering

Public Participation in Urban Policy – Solution Papers Founded on Objectivity and Mutual Respectfulness

Creator:: Zarins, Eriks
Abstract:: In recent times, public policy debates in the United States have been very contentious and dysfunctional. To help improve this situation, a multi-discipline research effort was conducted to look at "solution papers" as a form of public participation. Specifically, the roles of objectivity and mutual respectfulness were under consideration. Foundational...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : Robert C. Sahr In recent times, public policy debates in the United States have been very

"Pushing for the Highline" : The Diffusion of Innovations in the Oregon Otter Trawl Fishery

Creator:: Stephenson, Garry Owen
Abstract:: Implementation of. the Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976 affords opportunities for fishery expansion and economic development in the Oregon otter trawl fishery. The changes stimulated by the Act should occur, according to social science theorists, by the diffusion of innovations from innovative fishermen to less innovative fishermen, with...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . . 60 . . 90, 100, all right . . . we're fishin'." Carl bumps the hatchway as he steps into the house

Stephen Biko's Rhetorical Vision of Black Consciousness

Creator:: Fergusson, Julie K.
Abstract:: Stephen Biko was a black leader in South Africa who died in police custody on September 12, 1977. Biko's death echoed within the Republic of South Africa and around the world, showing that racial tensions in that country were severe. At his death he was a hero to the black...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: fact is certainly true where, as in this paper, fantasy theme analysis is employed. Robert Bales

Spousal Communication in the Family Setting (Married with Children)

Creator:: Dokken, Cort J.
Abstract:: Communication plays an important role in the life of a couple. This study seeks to determine the nature of couple communication. This study compares and contrasts the differences and similarities in communication between childless couples and parenting couples. The material for this study comes from interviewing ten married couples along...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Turnover, Memory, Persistence: Four Decades of Ecological Community at Lost Valley

Creator:: Bruno, Mark P.
Abstract:: This study is an ethnographic investigation of residential turnover, organizational memory, and the persistence of Lost Valley, an Oregon ecovillage founded in 1989. Literature on organizational turnover, memory, and persistence is reviewed and integrated with scholarship on intentional communities and ecovillages, generating a theoretical framework for data collection and analysis....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: conditions for the modern ecovillage movement were ripe enough for former astrophysicist Robert Gilman’s

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
Full Text:: towards the deterministic explanations of earlier geographers. Robert Rhoades (1978:608-614) re- minds

Social conflicts in rural communities of Oregon

Creator:: Jackson, Virgil Davis
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: the very Robert E. Park. From Wilson Gee's Research in the Social Sciences. p.14. 1 10

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
Full Text:: universe. 1 Carl Wissler, "The Influence of the Horse in the Development of Plains Culture," American

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

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Everyday Movement Against Capitalism : Prospects for a Prefigurative Strategy toward Open Utopia

Public Participation in Urban Policy – Solution Papers Founded on Objectivity and Mutual Respectfulness

"Pushing for the Highline" : The Diffusion of Innovations in the Oregon Otter Trawl Fishery

Stephen Biko's Rhetorical Vision of Black Consciousness

Spousal Communication in the Family Setting (Married with Children)

Turnover, Memory, Persistence: Four Decades of Ecological Community at Lost Valley

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

Social conflicts in rural communities of Oregon

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

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

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