Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1960. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.)--Wisconsin. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 67-71).

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Thesis (M.S.)--Ohio University, November, 2004. / Title from PDF t.p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 82-93)

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Ohio University, March, 2006. / Title from PDF t.p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 190-208)

The research described in this thesis is an attempt to understand the changing nature of redundancy, chequered working lives and unemployment in modern Britain. It focuses in particular on the ways in which a specific group of industrial workers and their families have perceived, mediated and reacted to the upheavals redundancy has caused in their lives. Section I deals with the history of the research; the problems associated with qualitative work and argues the case for a critical neo- Veberian methodology, as opposed to a general reliance on neo-Marxist perspectives in sociology. Section II examines economic and social change in contemporary Britain, paying particular attention to the recent histories of B. S. C. and South Yorkshire. Section III analyses the various effects of redundancy and unemployment on the nation, the local area, the family and the individual and those factors which can assist in pro-active responses to job loss. Some suggestions for the development of a social-psychology of redundancy et alia are made. The main findings deal with the experiences of these families, which are discussed within a life course perspective and include an examination of the many variables which can influence people's behaviour in these situations such as: class; age; occupation; gender; and political and religious consciousness. Family level variables are critically important, in particular the differing degrees of equality within particular marriages and households. The final section makes a conscious effort to link together the 'public issues' and 'private troubles' of redundancy et; alia. These are qualitatively different from those of earlier periods in the Twentieth Century and provide a challenge to sociologists and policy makers, who have not come to terms with their impact. This research indicates that neo-Marxism cannot adequately explain these phenomena. Some suggestions are made for a Critical Humanism, drawing on the best of sociology's diverse images of the social world, as a means of understanding the macro and micro-social realities of redundancy, chequered working lives and unemployment in the 1930's.

This thesis examines the relationship between religious style and social class in the City of Lethbridge, Alberta, Numerous theoretical and empirical studies have associated religious characteristics and social characteristics, but the discrepant findings of some of these studies prompted a fresh approach to the problem through focussing on religious style, defined in terms of worship-ritual, and social class, defined in terms of occupational prestige and measured by a socio-economic index. In order to tackle the problem posed by this study it was decided to undertake an empirical investigation of the class structure and religious style of a sample of churches in Lethbridge. Twenty-seven local churches formed the sample; this was representative of the forty-two churches in the city. Social differences are manifest in Lethbridge, and if social class is defined in terms of occupational prestige and measured by a socio-economic index (SEI), then class differences are also manifest. Such differences were found to exist in: (a) the general population (b) the church population. Samples of the general population and church population were differentiated along class lines and differences between the two distributions were apparent; upper and middle class members of the community are over represented in the local churches. Class structure of the churches was determined by drawing a sample of members from each church involved, ascertaining their occupations, and allocating a SEI based on these occupations. A mean index was computed for each of the churches which were then ranked according to their SEI and classified as upper, middle, or lower class. Religious style, defined in terms of worship-ritual, which is one of the dimensions of the traditional church-sect typology, was determined through participant observation as a result of which the churches were classified as formal, semi-formal, or informal. The relationship between religious style and social class was determined by calculating the weighted average mean SEI score for each of the "formality" categories, and additionally by using gamma as a simple measure of association. The relationship is curvi-linear. An additional analysis of the data points to the predominantly middle-to-upper class structure of local churches and gives indication of an inverse relationship between class and style. Theory relates religious characteristics and social characteristics in terms of the church-sect typology which, since its formulation by Weber and Troeltsch, has been developed by numerous scholars and has stimulated a variety of empirical studies. Discrepancies between studies based on the typology and those based on poll data appear to be due, in part, to different definitions of the concept "church-type." Although the relationships between style and class disclosed by this study do not precisely conform to the patterns of relating assumed by the church-sect typology, the discrepancies are not deemed to be serious bearing in mind the "ideal-type" character of that typology. If formal-style churches may be identified with church-type, informal with sect-type, and semi-formal with developed denominations, then the findings here generally support the relationships posited by the traditional typology, although the "fit" is not exact. / Arts, Faculty of / Sociology, Department of / Graduate

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Runstenarnas placering har diskuterats mycket, men har inte tidigare kopplats till deras skriftliga och ornamentala utformning. I min undersökning jämför jag runstenar som är placerade längs vägar med sådana som har en annan placering för att fastställa om det finns något samband mellan placering och utformning. Jag fokuserar på tre variabler: kristlighet, skriftlighet och status. Undersökningens material utgörs av run­stenarna som placerades längs tre vikingatida vägar: Attundalandsvägen, Eriksgatan i Upp­land och Eriksgatan i Östergötland. Dessa jämförs med runstenar som restes i samma region. Under­sökningens resultat har visat att ett samband mellan placering och utformning kan fastställas i olika grad för de olika variablerna, och för de olika vägarna. Eriksgatan i Östergötland skiljer sig mindre från sitt referensmaterial än de andra vägarna. För de övriga vägarna gäller att skillnaderna vad gäller kristlighet är mycket begränsade. Stenarna längs vägen visar inte någon mer avancerad skriftlighet, men har istället mycket påfallande ornamentik, vilket understryker att runstenar inte enbart har haft skriftlig betydelse. Längs vägarna finns det fler runmonument med högre status, framförallt den högre förekomsten av flerstens­monument är påfallande. Tidigare hypoteser att runstenar restes längs vägar för att synas bekräftas, men däremot ifrågasätts om deras placering vid vägar kan vara ett tecken på hög runkunnighet hos befolkningen. Till slut har undersökningen visat att runstenarna längs Eriksgatan i Uppland restes tidigare än de andra i området vilket antyder att runstensmodet tidigare kan ha spridit sig via vägen.

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