The Social Science Journal articles from July 1997

The Social Science Journal archives from July 1997

The rural-urban linkage to environmental policy making in the American West: a focus on Idaho.
July 1, 1997... INTRODUCTION The study of environmentalism, defined here as concern for the environment, in the United States has customarily followed three paths of investigation - examination of attitudinal survey data (at the local, state, and national...

A geographical analysis of America's ethnic radio programming.
July 1, 1997... Ethnic programming has become an increasingly important component of radio broadcasting in America today. This is despite portrayals of America as a melting pot of foreign immigrants and their descendants who speak English and thus have...

Higher education in Japan.
July 1, 1997... It took less than fifty years for Japan to rise from complete political and economic prostration following defeat in World War II to become one of the most dynamic if not yet the largest economic system in the world.(1) Today, a wide variety of...

Growth of government expenditure: the case of USA.
July 1, 1997... "Our government is getting too big and spending too much..." (George Bush, Aug. 20, 1992); "Our goal is to make the entire federal government less expensive and more efficient and to change the culture of our national bureaucracy..."(Bill...

Agricultural policymaking: bounded or unbounded?
July 1, 1997... Throughout the history of American political science, an area of study has been of particular importance - the policymaking process. This process is the core of the American political system, for policy is what the government does or does not...

The myth makers and wreckers: syndicated and non-syndicated sports columnists at 103 metro newspapers.
July 1, 1997... Sports today is more than a $50-billion-a-year business in the United States, and one of the 25 largest industries in the country. David Shaw, media critic for the Los Angeles Times, writes: Sports has become a big business in a skeptical,...

Married women's ideal family size preferences and family planning practices: evidence from rural Kenya.
July 1, 1997... INTRODUCTION This is primarily a descriptive article on ideal family size preferences and family planning practices in rural Kenya. The nature and scope of the article favors the use of descriptive statistics rather than statistical tests of...

A critical reexamination of alienation.
July 1, 1997... INTRODUCTION This article reexamines the usefulness of the concept of alienation as it appears in sociological literature and as it is applied in the social sciences. The article's theoretical point of departure is that alienation is rooted...

A descriptive profile of Mexican American executions in the Southwest.
July 1, 1997... More than two decades ago, after an exhaustive study of criminal justice agencies and the Mexican American population in the U.S. Southwest, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (1970) concluded: "This report paints a bleak picture of the...

Eurogamy among Asian-Americans: a note on Western assimilation.
July 1, 1997... In the context of assimilation Asians' preferred exogamy with Euro-Americans put the "American Dream" within reach. Exogamy with people of color can have the opposite effect requiting compensation as penalty for the loss in assimilation...

Private Rights and Public Illusions.
July 1, 1997... Reviewed by: Staci L. Beavers, California State University, San Marcos Addressing a host of government activities ranging from public assistance programs to occupational safety regulations, Tibor Machan's Private Rights and Public Illusions...

The Bubbling Cauldron: Race, Ethnicity, and the Urban Crisis.
July 1, 1997... Reviewed by Ruben Martinez, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs Globalization processes have taken center stage in many sectors of society. Cultural, economic, and demographic dynamics are making interdependency among peoples from...

The Coming of Keynesianism to America: Conversations with the Founders of Keynesian Economics.
July 1, 1997... Reviewed by: Steven Pressman, Monmouth University After a 20 year hiatus Keynesian economics is slowly coming back into vogue. Yet even when out of vogue, introductory macroeconomics courses remained Keynesian to the core; they explained how...

Under Attack, Fighting Back: Women and Welfare in the United States.
July 1, 1997... Reviewed by Velta Straube, University of Tennessee, Nashville Students of social welfare policy are familiar with Mimi Abramovitz's work. Her book, Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present,...

Handbook of Career Counseling Theory and Practice.
July 1, 1997... Reviewed by: Patricia Romano, Center for Human Potential, Fort Collins, Colorado Editors Mark Savickas and W. Bruce Walsh, along with a collection of other talented writers, make a sound argument in their book, Handbook of Career Counseling...

Individual Voices, Collective Visions: Fifty Years of Women in Sociology.
July 1, 1997... Reviewed by: Aimee Shreck and Sherry Sperman, Colorado State University Individual Voices, Collective Visions: Fifty Years of Women in Sociology is part of a series on women in the political economy. It is a selection of eighteen...