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Discriminatory behavior in New York restaurants: 1950 and 1981
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; D. Reidel Publishing Company ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1983-07)
Survey techniques are combined with behavioral observations in this attempt to replicate a 1950 baseline study in order to examine trends in racial discrimination. In the 1950 study, treatment of black and white couples ...
Self-esteem and delinquency revisited
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1981-12)
A recent investigation by Rosenberg and Rosenberg used longitudinal data from the Youth in Transition study to explore the causal relationships between delinquency and self-esteem. The present study is based on the same ...
A note on changes in black racial attitudes in Detroit: 1968–1976
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; D. Reidel Publ. Co ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1979-10)
The structure of subjective well-being in nine western societies
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; D. Reidel Publishing Company ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1979-01)
The structure of subjective well-being is analyzed by multidimensional mapping of evaluations of life concerns. For example, one finds that evaluations of Income are close to (i.e., relatively strongly related to) evaluations ...
Thai elderly who do not coreside with their children
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1994-01)
In this paper, data from a nationally representative survey of elderly Thais living in private households are analyzed. The analysis focuses on situations of the 756 elderly who do not coreside with an adult child. Only a ...
Factors facilitating adjustment to unemployment: Implications for intervention
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1991-08)
Focus groups as a qualitative method for crosscultural research in social gerontology
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1995-04)
The focus group approach for collecting qualitative data can be usefully applied in social gerontological studies, both in a single setting and cross-culturally. The experiences of the research terms participating in the ...
The Decline of Remarriage: Evidence From German Village Populations in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
(Sage Publications, 1985)
Family reconstitution data for fourteen German village populations permit the examination of remarriage during the eighteenth and nineteenth cen turies. The results provide compelling evidence for a secular decline in the ...