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Protecting the womb: The myth of privacy in reproduction
Get PDFThis paper examines the policing of the sexuality of juvenile females, pregnant women and abortion within a framework of the public/private dichotomy using Gerald Turkels typology of Marxian postulates. It explores five primary roles of women under the capitalist system in the United States and relates them to policies directed at women's reproductive rights based on the public/private distinction
Testing some truisms about poverty in Oklahoma
Get PDFFour truisms about poverty are often heard in Oklahoma: Dependency causes poverty, education solves poverty, discrimination is no longer a problem, and a rising economic tide floats all boats. This paper uses publicly available sources - such as the U.S. Census - to test these truisms in Oklahoma. From 1999 · and 2006 it was found that poverty increased in the face of decreased public assistance, that poverty increased in the face of increased education levels, that higher rates of poverty level wages were paid to minorities and women than to white men, that poverty level wages were a part of the labor market and that poverty rises and falls as the proportion of jobs that pay poverty level wages rises and falls. Moreover, real wages fell as per capita gross domestic product rose. After a close examination of various industrial sectors and of recent cross national studies, it was concluded that a rising floor under the labor market is more effective at reducing poverty than a rising general tide of economic growth
A typology of artists found on Jackson Square in New Orleans' French Quarter
Get PDFThe principle subjects of this paper are the Jackson Square artists of New Orleans. Interviews were conducted with 42 artists who paint and sell on the Square. Others in the art community were also interviewed. Based on these interviews the authors created a typology which identified the following types of Jackson Square artists: 1) The Worker, 2) The Escapist, 3) The Serious Artist, 4) The Artist/Houseperson, 5) The Craftsperson, and 6) The Would-Be-Artist. These types were differentiated on the bases of the need to make money, seriousness about their work and their artistic and career aspirations, having art in galleries, skills level, and reasons for working in Jackson Square. This typology may be used for purposes of comparing artists in other locales and in other markets. Discussion of relationships between artists, consumers, gallery owners, and the public are offered
A reconsideration of social control and differential association theories: An empirical investigation of parental and peer influences on delinquency
Get PDFThis paper presents an integrated framework of juvenile delinquency that includes variÂables from social control and differential association theories in addition to a reconceptualÂization of the role of parents as discussed in these theories. The reconceptualization reflects our argument for the need to consider how antisocial parents may serve to faciliÂtate delinquency. A path model was developed for testing a set of hypotheses generated from the model. The predictor variables include parental conventionality, parental superviÂsion, parental attachment, school commitment, delinquent peer association, and delinquent attitudes. We examined both the direct and indirect effects each of these had on delinÂquency. The data were obtained from a sample of 891 urban high school and junior high school students identified as early adolescent and late adolescent girls and boys. The path model is separately estimated for these four groups. Although the amount of variance our model explains for each of these groups is quite significant, we did discover some differÂences in the strength of the predictor variables across age groups. While parental influence proved to be more significant than peer association for early adolescents, we found the opposite to be true for late adolescents. Finally, our findings support our argument for a reconceptualization of the role of parents in influencing delinquency
Vital statistics on Oklahoma politics
Get PDFThis section of Oklahoma Politics presents Oklahoma political data of interest to teachers and scholars. Here we examine the results of a survey of candidates for the state legislature conducted by the Carl Albert Center at the University of Oklahoma. The principle investigators are Gary Copeland, Jonathan Mott, and J. David Rausch. The survey was conducted as part of an on-going project with a primary interest in how and when term limitations begin to influence the decisions and career calculations of the politically ambitious in our state. Conducted in the Fall of 1992, the survey respondents were among the first group of candidates who ran for state legislative office knowing that they would be affected by term limitations