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Black and White Members and Ministers in the United Methodist Church : A Comparative Analysis

Description: Two primary sources of data were utilized: official church records, and a questionnaire survey administered to a random sample of Anglo and African-American United Methodists in the North Texas area. Questions covered socio-demographic and theological matters as well as perceptions of racism in the church. Ministers and lay members were surveyed separately.
Date: August 1991
Creator: Dunagin, Richard L. (Richard Lee)
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Organizational Perceptions of Women's Vulnerability to Violence in the Wake of Disaster

Description: Women as a group hold little power in the social system which increases women's vulnerability to domestic violence. According to Merton (1970), social problems may be revealed through the disaster recovery process. A coraHunity1s organizational response to social problems such as wife abuse depends upon organizational members' perceptions. The data suggest that organizational perceptions of domestic violence largely depend upon the setting or environment in which an organization exists and oper… more
Date: August 1995
Creator: Wilson, Jennifer L. (Jennifer Lyn)
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Parental and Children's Experiences and Adjustment in Maternal Versus Joint Custody Families

Description: Differences between joint custody and mother custody families were assessed. The sample consisted of 42 post divorce families which had a child between the age of 4 and 15 years and resided in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex. This cross sectional, multimethod, quasi-experimental study examined two groups of divorced families. The experimental group consisting of 21 joint custody families, was compared to the control group, consisting of 21 mother custody families. Families were matched between … more
Date: May 1991
Creator: Rockwell-Evans, Kim E. (Kim Evonne)
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