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The proposed formulation attempts to bring genetics, stress, and the conditions of life attendant on social-class position into one coherent interpretation of schizophrenia. The thrust of the argument is that the conditions of life experienced by people of lower social-class position tend to impair their ability to deal resourcefully with the problematic and the stressful. Such impairment would probably result in schizophrenia only for people who are both genetically vulnerable and exposed to considerable stress—but these conditions, too, may impinge with special severity on people in the lowest social classes.

ISSN:0037-7732    

DOI:10.1093/sf/50.3.295

出版商:The University of North Carolina Press    

年代:1972

数据来源: OUP

ISSN:0037-7732    

DOI:10.1093/sf/50.3.305

出版商:The University of North Carolina Press    

年代:1972

数据来源: OUP

ISSN:0037-7732    

DOI:10.1093/sf/50.3.310

出版商:The University of North Carolina Press    

年代:1972

数据来源: OUP

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The increasing importance of the economic approach to education is stressed and the postulates concerning the concepts and social functions of education upon which modern economics of education is based are analyzed and criticized. The studies on the economics of education in the course of the last ten years, in France and elsewhere, fall into three categories which correspond to three levels of elaboration of a new ideology of education, the origin of which is also contained in the sociological approach upon which the modern economics of education is based.

ISSN:0037-7732    

DOI:10.1093/sf/50.3.313

出版商:The University of North Carolina Press    

年代:1972

数据来源: OUP

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Sociological models have not generally guided the analysis of race and ethnic relations. This paper constitutes an attempt to alter this situation by assessing the relevance of the race cycle, consensus, interdependence and conflict frameworks for the construction of an explanation of the emergence, persistence, adaptation, and change of systems of ethnic differentiation. Although each of the frameworks has relevance for more than one of these empirical problems, it is concluded that the race cycle is most useful in explaining the emergence of ethnic differentiation, consensus is most useful vis-à-vis persistence, interdependence vis-à-vis adaptation, and conflict vis-à-vis change. A number of explanatory propositions are stated.

ISSN:0037-7732    

DOI:10.1093/sf/50.3.333

出版商:The University of North Carolina Press    

年代:1972

数据来源: OUP

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This discussion focuses on the degree of occupational differentiation when white females are compared with white males and nonwhite females. The index of dissimilarity provides a measure of occupational differentiation applied to data from 66 SMSAs for 1960. The results show major variations among SMSAs in the degree of occupational differentiation. Differences between white females and nonwhite females (presumably reflecting racial discrimination) and differences between white females and white males (presumably reflecting sexual discrimination) show roughly the same maximum and minimum values but are only loosely correlated. It is speculated that physiological factors will be more important in reducing the degree of occupational differentiation in the latter case than in the former.

ISSN:0037-7732    

DOI:10.1093/sf/50.3.349

出版商:The University of North Carolina Press    

年代:1972

数据来源: OUP

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Hubert Blalock predicted that the occurrence of lynching in southern communities should be positively related, with increasing slope, to the proportion black of the population, but methodological problems of computing a rate have precluded testing the prediction. A model of random interracial interaction suggests computing the rate with a term containing the proportion black and the proportion white, and—using this rate—Blalock's prediction is upheld for Mississippi counties in the period 1889–1930. The height and shape of the curve relating this rate to percent black varies from state to state, and it is suggested that such variation could be profitably related to variation in historical and governmental properties of the states.

ISSN:0037-7732    

DOI:10.1093/sf/50.3.356

出版商:The University of North Carolina Press    

年代:1972

数据来源: OUP

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This paper considers the basic requirements for retaining the concept of political culture as a useful theoretical category. First we examine two main pitfalls often found in current usages:reductionismandnormative bias. Then we respecify the concept in terms of (1) the political activities focused on, and (2) the significance of the symbols, either institutional or legitimational. Next we offer some generalizations about the internal dynamics of political culture. Finally, we suggest that political culture be treated as a “specifying variable” in the explanation of political behavior.

ISSN:0037-7732    

DOI:10.1093/sf/50.3.361

出版商:The University of North Carolina Press    

年代:1972

数据来源: OUP

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Some assumptions common to traditional theories of the community are examined: (1) that social system boundaries are geographically determinable; (2) that the units comprising communities are either humans or families; (3) that cooperation based on common goals underlies community organization.Suggested here is a conflict model of community structure and behavior that focuses upon interstitial groups linking elemental groups and complex organizations to form the community system. Within interstitial groups social exchange and coordination occurs between groups and organizations whose orientations are in potential conflict. This social exchange between elemental groups, a consequence of the division of labor, is accomplished within interstices containing conjunctive relationships, and it is here that conflict is managed, enabling the operation of complex social systems.

ISSN:0037-7732    

DOI:10.1093/sf/50.3.371

出版商:The University of North Carolina Press    

年代:1972

数据来源: OUP

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The results of one direct test of Holt's “cultural shock” theory for sectarianism have been questioned because of a biased sampling frame. In a secondary analysis of data from the Lenski Detroit Area Study and the Southern Appalachian Studies, we test whether rural migrants are more sectarian—in attitude or in religious organization preference—than residents at places of origin and destination. We also test for church attendance, frequency of devotional practice, communalism, and anomie. Our analysis is limited to white Protestants. The findings do not indicate that migrants experience cultural shock and turn to sectlike religious expressions.

ISSN:0037-7732    

DOI:10.1093/sf/50.3.379

出版商:The University of North Carolina Press    

年代:1972

数据来源: OUP