In this dissertation I explore the relationship between women, the state, and religious institutions in western Austria--the most conservative part of the country. The fall of the Iron Curtain triggered widespread fears of massive migration flows from Eastern Europe, and created strong sentiments against migrants, especially those from the East and South and led to a rise in ethnocentrism and xenophobia. Turks, who comprise the largest migrant population, are especially vulnerable to the resulting discriminatory practices and attitudes.The questions I posed focused on how Turkish women who have arrived since the economic boom of the 1980s, their children born in Austria, and women of pre-WWII Austrian ancestry deal with the challenges integration brings. Further, I examine the effect patriarchal, elitist discourse has on both Austrian and Turkish migrant women's self-perception, sociopolitical status and their worldviews.

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This investigation was designed to add to and clarify, somewhat, the results of previous studies concerning the relationship between rigidity and ethnocentrism. A manifest rigidity scale, based on theory, was utilized to clarify existing confusion over what constitutes rigidity.

Opposition to the West is one of the stable characteristics of the Russian history. It is not only enshrined in the mentality of Russian people, but has become an integral part of the social and political culture of the country. The crisis facing Russia at the present time, the active modernisation and inclusion in the globalisation not only further exacerbate this confrontation, but also actualise the perennial alternative facing Russia: to converge with the West, or enter a new confrontation with it. This study explores the influence of the ethnocentric dimension on the cultural and historical dynamics of the paradigm 'Russia vs the West'. The new concept of content, structure, forms and levels of the ethnocentrism phenomenon developed by the author is tested on the basis of integrated analysis of cultural and historical evolution of Russia, the exploration of interaction between the processes of modernisation and the peculiarities of the perception of its 'modernisation standard' – the West. The data employed by the author comes from sociological studies conducted in the last 20 years and enables not only to identify the major determinants and factors influencing the current strategy of relations between Russia and the West, but also to predict the possible scenario of the development of processes of post-Soviet modernisation of this country and its interaction with the outside world.

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Thesis (B.A. Hons.))--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Psychology, 1975.

Thesis (B.A. (Hons.)) -- University of Adelaide, Dept. of Psychology, 1977.

Thesis (D.A.)--Illinois State University, 1978. / Title from title page screen, viewed Jan. 20, 2005. Dissertation Committee: Arlan C. Helgeson (chair), L. Moody Simms, Charles E. Gray, Earl A. Reitan, Edward B. Jelks. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 152-171) and abstract. Also available in print.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Santa Cruz. / Typescript. Bibliography: leaves 328-339.

Social scientists have been concerned for quite some time with the relationship between tolerance of perceptual ambiguity and ethnocentrism. Some investigations have approached the problem by utilizing ambiguous visual designs. It is the purpose of this research to add a new dimension to these studies by employing different types of visual figures and investigating relationships between perception and ethnocentrism.