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1	GIS Spatial Analysis of Multiple Scenes in Criminal Homicides Anderson, Casey C 10 April 2009 (has links) Anthropological studies of community structures and human relationships of today's societies are becoming increasingly important for crime analysis. Law enforcement agencies are often challenged with the task of connecting multiple locations to persons involved in crimes to solve cases. Using the structures of the target communities and the social relationship between the victim and offender, spatial distributions of crimes can be reconstructed. Data used in this analysis were collected from Hillsborough County, Florida (n=420) and Lancaster County, Nebraska (n=48) law enforcement agencies within the years 1997-2007. The hypothesis of this paper is: if the social relationship between the victim and offender affect the spatial distribution of significant locations in a criminal homicide, then by exploiting the relationship of the involved individuals, can one acknowledge the possibility of generalized spatial configurations, depending on the type of community in which it occurred? Geographic distance results are cross-referenced to the relationship of the perpetrator to the victim, and scrutinized with frequencies, chi-square tests, cross-tabulations, correlations, mean comparison, and descriptive statistics. Results show similar frequencies of social relationship categories and the frequencies of victim and offender sex. However, the mechanism of death, victim and offender age differences, victim precipitation, and offender ancestries of domestic homicides, co-habitation cases, and distances between locations differ between the two communities. These variables' frequencies and patterns show some variation between the two regional settings. The goal of this paper is to identify the variables, through assessing community structures and social relationships, which affect the rates of social violence. homicide GIS Anthropology social structure spatial geography American Studies Arts and Humanities
2	Where do teachers teach? : Choice strategies developed by Newly Qualified Teachers (NQTs) in Greater Manchester Heywood, Philippa January 2019 (has links) The tools of Pierre Bourdieu are garnered in the present study to examine the mechanisms behind choice strategies employed by secondary NQTs when choosing where to teach. 10 Semi-structured interviews, supported by 50 survey responses, form a qualitative foundation, delivering detailed personal narratives which offer a unique insight in to the career trajectories envisioned by the most recent cohort of trainee teachers. Administrative data on secondary schools, with a geographical focus on the area of Greater Manchester, forms a backdrop of the job market, and highlights a concurrent and historical North/South divide which continues to segregate communities, schools and teachers. Narratives of a teacher shortage prevail and increasingly, where holding a relevant degree is used as a marker of teacher quality, evidence illuminates a significant socio-economic gradient, intensifying the pertinence of the question; who chooses to teach where, and why? The interviews testify to the importance of social background, motivating teachers to pursue a best fit approach which allows them to recreate their own experiences of education and ‘return home’, a divide characterised by a preference for the academic versus the pastoral. Equally, NQTs’ individual levels of capital manipulate the ‘choice’, manoeuvring actors into positions, sometimes outside their comfort zone. habitus capital space spatial geography early career teachers
3	A systematics for interpreting past structures with possible cosmic references in Sub-Saharan Africa Wade, Richard Peter 05 May 2009 (has links) This thesis presents a method of identifying astronomical expressionsinherent within the spatial geography, cultural landscapes, and layouts of structures with a view to implementing the systematics in an African context. In determining astronomical codes of the southern African pre - early farmer and metalworking archaeological sites - this review deals with oral tradition, rituals, formative calendars, fertility, meteorites, eclipses, bio-diversity, sustainable agriculture, rainmaking and the general star lore. Conclusions are drawn from the hypothesis that certain structures functioned as astronomical expressions by use of monoliths and other configurations, with specific examples of how these possibilities were drawn from aspects within the Mapungubwe/Zimbabwe Cultural Complex and the preceding riverine cultural formations. / Dissertation (MSc(Applied Science))--University of Pretoria, 2009. / Architecture / unrestricted Ethnoastronomy Tourism Ancient africa Technologies and applied sciences Oral history Social sciences History Gamma-ray astronomy Computer simulation Ethno mathematics Mathematical literacy Astronomy Indigenous knowledge systems Lemba (culture) History Anthropology Culture and identity Agriculture Archaeology Historical astronomy Heritage Archaeoastronomy Calendars Cosmology Spatial geography Cultural landscapes Cave art Machema Mapungubwe Stelae Megaliths Monoliths Socialecology Heritage management Cultural landscape Cultural ecology Heritage conservation Systematics Heritage assessment Entoptic Cognitive anthropology Precision agriculture Indigenous material culture Venda Shona Sustainable agriculture Meteorology Cognitive Architecture Cosmic reference Neuropsychological theory Agricultural sciences Rainmaking Oral tradition UCTD

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