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Werner, Carol M.; Sansone, Carol; Brown, Barbara B. | Guided group discussion and attitude change: the roles of normative and informational influence | Group discussion has effectively changed attitudes and behaviors compared to individually-targeted messages (Lewin, 1952; Werner, 2003). This study examines the roles of normative and informational social influence in this effect. High school students heard a message about replacing toxic products w... | Elaboration likelihood model; ELM; Waste reduction; Sustainability; Household hazardous waste; HHW; Toxic waste; Nontoxic alternatives; Group discussion | 2008-03 |
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McDaniel, Susan | Health care in an aging Canada: constraint or choice? | It is often presumed that population aging will result in increased demand for health care, with older Canadians seen as a "burden" to the working population. Yet, such a presumption of direct correlation (with implied causality) belies the complex questions of societal choices in expenditures: fac... | Age factors; Canada; Health care costs | 1994 |
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Yu, Zhou | Heterogeneity in Asian American homeownership: the impact of household endowments and immigrant status | Recently, research has begun to investigate the reasons for differences in homeownership rates between Asian and whites. This paper extends this research by examining the heterogeneity that exists across Asian groups in the United States. We find that there are important differences across geog... | Immigrants; Homeownership | 2003 |
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Yu, Zhou | Homeownership determinants for Chinese Americans: assimilation, ethnic concentration, and nativity | Chinese homeownership rates in the Los Angeles CMSA adjusted by socioeconomic and housing market characteristics are on average 18 percentage points higher than those of native white households Painter et al. (2003). This finding runs contrary to most of immigration literature, which suggests that i... | Chinese Americans; homeownership | 2004 |
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Zick, Cathleen D.; Brown, Barbara B.; Kowaleski-Jones, Lori; Smith, Ken R. | Household food expenditure patterns: a cluster analysis | The 2001 report titled "The Surgeon General's Call to Action to Prevent and Decrease Overweight and Obesity" identified overweight and obesity as major public health problems, costing U.S. society as much as $117 billion a year and posing as great a threat of death as poverty, smoking, or problem ... | Food expenditure; Buying habits; Buying patterns | 2007 |
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Yu, Zhou | Immigrants and housing markets in mid-size metropolitan areas | The recent trend of immigrants arriving in mid-size metropolitan areas has received growing attention in the literature. This study examines the success of immigrants in the housing markets of a sample 60 metropolitan areas using Census microdata in both 2000 and 2005. The results suggest that immig... | | 2009 |
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Smith, Ken R.; Bean, Lee Lawrence; Mineau, Geraldine Page; Fraser, Alison M.; Lane, Diana | Infant deaths in Utah, 1850-1939 | Of all the health revolutions that have taken place in the United States since 1850, the reduction of infant mortality is arguably the most dramatic and far-reaching. Because of the incompleteness and unreliability of surviving vital records,, we will probably never know precisely the rate of infan... | Death; Utah; Infant mortality | 2002 |
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Kowaleski-Jones, Lori | Influence of participation in the national school lunch program and food insecurity on child well-being | This study examines two research questions: the child- and family-specific factors that predict food insecurity and participation in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and the effects on school-age children of food insecurity and participating in the NSLP. Results show that factors representin... | Children's nutrition; Children's diet; Child development | 2003-03 |
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McDaniel, Susan | Information and communications technologies: bugs in the generational ointment? | The uses and impacts of information and communications technologies IICTsl. are not smooth, linear or fairy-tale like in dusting society with benefits. In development, adoption, uses and impacts. technologies shape. and are shaped by social relations and social structures. Generational relations a... | Information; Communication; Technologies; Social relations | 2002 |
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McDaniel, Susan | Innovation in human/social guise | In this chapter, innovation is viewed from a step further back, as an astronaut might see the earth from space. It is not seen as something analysed as a linear, technical process, whether incremental or radical. Nor is it seen as a process in which social context adds to the mix of other factors to... | Innovation; Social process | 2006 |
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McDaniel, Susan | Intergenerational transfers, social solidarity, and social policy: unanswered questions and policy challenges | Le transfert intergenerationnel constitue l'essence de la continuite societale et pourtant, il demeure mal conceptualise et analyse. Il se situe Egalement au centre du concept de l'etat sur le bien-etre quant a la redistribution des ressources et partant, des changements/defis actuels quant aux mes... | Intergenerational transfers; Social solidarity; Social continuity; Redistribution | 1997 |
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Zick, Cathleen D. | The kids are all right: Generational differences in responses to the great recession | Data from a university survey of 2,799 employees were examined to determine age cohort differences in retirement planning activities in the aftermath of the Great Recession. A life course approach and logistic regression were used to assess whether members of four different age cohorts altered their... | | 2012-01-01 |
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Diener, Marissa L. | Kindergarten readiness and performance of Latino children participating in Reach Out and Read | Background: Literacy is a vital skill that forms the basis for academic, occupational, and social success. Minority populations, especially immigrant Latinos in the US, have achievement gaps in literacy when compared to the White population. The Reach Out and Read (ROR) program is a pediatric, prima... | | 2012-01-01 |
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| landesman test.pdf | Rail-volution 2005, September 8-10, 2005. Salt Lake City, Utah. Workshop Summaries. | Transportation; Community development; Public transportation | 2006-11-10 |
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Yu, Zhou | Leaving gateway metropolitan areas in the United States: immigrants and the housing market | Immigration is no longer a phenomenon that is simply affecting gateway metropolitan areas in the United States. This analysis demonstrates that large numbers of immigrants are moving to other metropolitan areas and analyzes the housing outcomes of households who currently live in the fourteen larges... | Homeownership; Migrants; Households | 2008-05-01 |
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McDaniel, Susan | Les femmes dans un Canada en voie de vieillissement: une approche féministe | Le vieillessement de la population est un des thèmes majeurs de discussion en cette fin de XXe siècle, tous les pays développés étant engagés dans le processus. Certains redoutent l'insuffisance des ressources requises pour le bien-être des personnes âgées; d'autres considèrent le vieilli... | | 1989 |
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Wolfinger, Nicholas H. | Marriage and divorce in Utah and the United States: convergence or continued divergence? | The social context for marriage and divorce in the United States has changed dramatically over the last 50 years. Since the 1950s, Americans have been waiting longer to marry. Women's median age at first marriage rose from 20 in the 1960s to 25 in 2000; for men, the increase was from 22 to 27 (Clar... | | 2006 |
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McDaniel, Susan | Medical culture and health politics: the Ontario debate | The 1986 doctors' strike in Ontario brought into stark relief many of the issues that have been latent in Canadian health politics for several decades. In this paper, an analysis from a sociological perspective is offered of the issues involved in the 1986 doctors' strike. Issues are discussed i... | | 1988 |
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Brown, Barbara B. | Methods for preparing dry, partially articulated skeletons of osteichthyans, with notes on making ridewood dissections of the cranial skeleton | We describe methods for preparing dry skeletons of virtually any osteichthyan species with a well-ossified skeleton, including very large specimens (e.g., > 1 m Megalops atlanticus). Our approach differs from those conventionally used to prepare skeletons of tetrapods in that (1) fairly complete di... | Skeleton preparation; Study specimens; Partially articulated skeletons; Osteichthyans; Ridewood dissections; Cranial skeleton | 2004 |
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Yu, Zhou | Misleading comparisons of homeownership rates between groups and over time: the effects of variable household formation | Despite ominous signs of housing market stress, the homeownership rate reached an all time high in 2006. We seek to understand whether the conventional definition of homeownership, which is based on the share of households and ignores the effects of variable household formation, has confounded the a... | | 2009 |
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Yu, Zhou | Misleading comparisons of homeownership rates when the variable effect of household formation is ignored: explaining rising homeownership and the homeownership gap between Blacks and Asians | Despite ominous signs of housing market stress in the U.S., the homeownership rate reached an all time high in 2006. The conventional definition of homeownership, which is based on the share of households and ignores the effects of variable household formation, confounds the measurement of "success"... | | 2010-01-01 |
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Wolfinger, Nicholas H. | Mixed blessings of no-fault divorce | Between the mid-1960s and 1979 the crude divorce rate in the United States more than doubled.1 Although divorce had increased at a steady rate for more than the previous 100 years, the mid-1960s marked the beginning of an unprecedented boom.2 Despite modest declines over the last twenty years,3 th... | Divorce reform | 2005 |
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Fan, Jessie Xiaojing | Net income, gross income, and bias in child support awards in gross income-shares states | In this study I discuss the pros and cons of using net income vs. gross income in gross income-shares states. It is argued that the "standardized net" approach is the best approach in determining child support awards based on the combined principles of equity and accuracy. However most states use g... | Net income; Gross income; Tax credit; State income tax | 2006-07-27 |
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McDaniel, Susan | New stork rising? Women's roles and reproductive changes | Anyone who has not been living in a remote cave will know that reproduction in the past decade has been changing rather dramatically. These changes have occurred on several fronts. Writing as a sociologist, I shall emphasize the social aspects of these changes, looking first at some of the changes ... | In vitro; Birth rate; Artificial insemination | 1989 |
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McDaniel, Susan | Older women: their quest for justice and peace | Myths, misconceptions and stereotypes about women and about older people combine in ways that prevent us from noticing some promising new developments in the quest for justice and peace. A popular stereotype sees the person working toward peace and justice as youthful, and significantly, often male.... | Women; Peace; Justice | 1988 |