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A comparative analysis of aggression by active male participants in intramural and open recreation basketball at Oregon State University

Creator:: Harty, Robert A. (Robert Alvin), 1962-
Abstract:: As an increase in Americans seek their leisure experience in rationalized forms of play, certain symptoms of non-enjoyment, non-flow achievement are present; i.e., aggression. This relationship between aggression and rationalized play has widely manifested in university intramural sports settings. The review of literature provides the logical development for this relationship...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: THESIS OF Robert A. Harty for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in the co

An analysis of the relationship between corporate sponsorship and intramural event participation

Creator:: Tobery, James R.
Abstract:: More Americans are participating in sport every year and several organizations have made it their mission to provide the opportunity for organized sport participation. College and University intramural departments are one of those organizations. They provide participation opportunities on nearly every college campus. The review of literature identifies the sociological...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: privacy Dow P. Poling More Americans are participating in sport every year and several organizations

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

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

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:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Mark P. Bruno for the

From sister to sister to woman : the role of sororities in the social transmission of gender

Creator:: Gilmore, Jennifer
Abstract:: Sororities play an important role in the process by which sorority women become gendered by influencing members' ideas about what it means to be a woman. Women and men become gendered through regular social interaction with other women and men, and sororities have a particularly strong impact on their members...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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:: ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Robert A. Robertson for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary

Influence of Political Liberalism on Contracting Prison Health Care

Creator:: Yarnall, Robert G.
Abstract:: Studies on prison contracting have typically focused on the privatization of entire facilities and carceral services offered to inmates. There has been limited research, however, as to how political ideology influences the extent to which state prisons contract out health care services. There also appears to be a need for...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Robert G. Yarnall for the

The University Experiences of First-Generation Polynesian Football Players : An Exploratory Study of Cultural Adaptation

Creator:: Vave, Walker Cook
Abstract:: This study discusses common struggles of first-generation Polynesian football players’ university experiences with cultural adaptation. There is little research on this topic. Because of the importance of these issues and the exploratory nature of this study, a qualitative approach was needed. Interviews were conducted with 15 first-generation Polynesian football male...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: be a graduate student. Robert Thompson, I was honored when you chose to be my advisor

African American/Black Upward Mobility through Sports : A Critical Analysis

Creator:: Smith, Michael D.
Abstract:: Research has shown that African Americans/Blacks, especially those with low socioeconomic status, acknowledge athletics as an avenue for upward mobility (Coakley, 2011). Although the chances of becoming a professional athlete might seem unachievable through sports, athletes develop tangible and intangible abilities that transfer and are useful in the years following...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: as well; a professor that expected and wanted the best from me. Dr. Robert Thompson, who took a

ScholarsArchive@OSU

A comparative analysis of aggression by active male participants in intramural and open recreation basketball at Oregon State University

An analysis of the relationship between corporate sponsorship and intramural event participation

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

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

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

From sister to sister to woman : the role of sororities in the social transmission of gender

The natural history of public works development

Influence of Political Liberalism on Contracting Prison Health Care

The University Experiences of First-Generation Polynesian Football Players : An Exploratory Study of Cultural Adaptation

African American/Black Upward Mobility through Sports : A Critical Analysis

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