East Asia's capitalist growth has generated many interesting questions concerning Third World development. While radical and critical theories tend to ignore East Asia, modernization and neoclassical economic theories offer ahistorical accounts of what has actually happened. Focusing on South Korea's rapid rise in the world-system, this study seeks to address many issues surrounding East Asian development. Three successful export industries have been chosen for a detailed examination of the dialectical interaction between the state and the world-system forces. South Korea's economic success was generally attributed to its well-orchestrated policy of following the product cycle in the international division of labor. The Korean state has effectively mastered the flow of the product cycle in the three industries, but failed to do so in the machinery and chemical sectors. Its strategy of following the product cycle was mediated by the Northeast Asian political economic system, in which Japan played a central role. Since Korea's success is historically as well as regionally specific, its model of development may not be readily adaptable for the other developing countries trying to emulate the country. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 49-12, Section: A, page: 3892. / Major Professor: Richard Rubinson. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1988.

In recent years, the American health care system has undergone major changes in organization and sponsorship. From the perspectives of Marxian and Weberian theories, the corporate or government sponsored arrangements which have emerged from these institutional changes are expected to reduce participating physicians' professional autonomy (self-control of their own activity) and authority (control of the medical care process). In opposition to this view, recent occupational theory, emphasizing the social power of professions, has argued that despite the transformations underway within health care, physicians can be expected to retain autonomy and authority. / This case-study of a state-sponsored, pediatric primary care project operating in two locations seeks to assess the relative merits of the prevailing theoretical perspectives described above and to investigate the factors which influence physicians' retention or loss of autonomy and authority. Data from interviews with participating pediatricians, nurse/case managers and with administrators at the project and state level are augmented by the responses of pediatricians in other areas of the state to a survey concerning their perceptions of, and willingness to participate in such a project. / The findings indicate that, although the predictions of both classical and recent theories are partly realized, neither has sufficiently recognized the effects of the composition, internal cohesion and local market circumstances of occupational segments within the medical profession on the strategies physicians use to preserve professional control. These characteristics of occupational segments are apparently associated with variations in professional values which underlie individual responses to specific practice arrangements as well as collective actions to influence the practice arrangements in which physicians participate. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 52-03, Section: A, page: 1101. / Major Professor: Allen W. Imershein. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1991.

This study examined the role of the Saudi Arabian National Guard as an instrument of modernization. The focus of the study was the ability of the National Guard to instill in its members the Arab traditional values--male status, family ties, respect for the elderly, and predisposition toward traditional values--while strengthening the development-related values--rationality of consumption, occupational aspiration, respect for time, raising the status of women, independent decision making, and motivation. / Data were collected with questionnaires and interviews. The random sample was 803 National Guard personnel. / The results of bivariate analysis indicated that, with the exception of the male status variable, the Saudi Arabian National Guard has played a significant role in influencing the attitudes and behavior of its personnel in the desired direction with both traditional and development-related values. / A multivariate analysis was used to assess the individual and collective impact of experience in the National Guard along with eight other variables found to contribute strongly to shaping the ten examined values. These included level of education, age, local and foreign training, knowledge of foreign language, reading a weekly magazine, marital status, and place of birth. The regression analysis indicated that experience in the National Guard was the major contributor in shaping almost all the studied values. The exceptions were the male status variable, to which experience in the National Guard did not contribute, and raising the status of women, in which education was a stronger contributor than experience in the National Guard. / The study concluded with an evaluation of the concept of modernization and the feasibility of its application in Third World countries, suggesting that it should be viewed as a national goal, and offering suggestions for future research in this area. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 49-03, Section: A, page: 0635. / Major Professor: Monte Palmer. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1988.

Based on ethnography, oral history and archival research, this study examines the culture of the Accompong Maroons by focusing on the political, economic, social, religious and kinship institutions, foodways, and land history. This research demonstrates that like the South American Maroons, the Accompong Maroons differ in their ideology and symbolisms from the larger New World population. However, the Accompong Maroons have assimilated, accommodated and integrated into the state in every other aspect. As a consequence, the Accompong Maroons can only be considered maroons in name only. Today's Accompong Maroons resemble any other rural peasant community in Jamaica. Grounded in historical analysis, the study also demonstrate that social stratification in Accompong Town results from unequal access to land and other resources, lack of economic infrastructure, and constraints on food marketeers and migration. This finding does not support the concept of communalism presented in previous studies.

This study examines attitudes toward sources of assistance in a white, working class, ethnic neighborhood in east Baltimore. The study is based on a random sample of one hundred ethnic neighborhood residents. The sample includes fifty Polish-Americans and fifty Italian-Americans between the ages of twenty-one and fifty. The primary method of data collection is the face-to-face interview. The interview schedule includes structured and unstructured questions in addition to six reaction vignettes developed by Shirley Star. The study is an attempt to provide up-to-date information regarding preferred sources of assistance in an urban, ethnic neighborhood. The major finding of the study is that working class, ethnic, Catholics prefer traditional structures for meeting social needs. Traditional structures such as the family, the church, and to some extent the ethnic voluntary association, have not been significantly overshadowed by functionally specialized service organizations of the wider community. Members of the extended family and traditional professionals such as the clergy and the general physician are key gatekeepers and preferred sources of assistance. The data in the study provide a basis for suggesting adaptations in case services and greater pluralism in social service delivery strategies.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University OF MICHIGAN.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Queensland, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references.

This is a study of the development of classes and structure of the society of Bangladesh. It began by recognising the peripheral status of Bangladesh in the world capitalist system and explained the problem in terms of colonial and neo-colonial subjugation. Unlike other Third World societies whose forceful integration in world capitalism resulted in the underdevelopment of classes and social structure, in the case of Bangladesh, it was intensified with the prolongation of colonial domination. British colonialism was immediately followed by the clcss and colonial exploitation of Pakistani capitalism. Thus, the transformation of classes and the structure of the society in Bangladesh, within a dominant capitalist mode of production, created specific social features under successive forms of colonial domination. The British introduced bourgeois property relations in land but undermined the capitalist transformation of the economy by restricting the organic growth of the forces which could otherwise revolutionise the mode of production. Similarly Pakistani rule restricted capital accumulation in both agrarian and non-agrarian sectors and blocked the growth of capitalism and the classes related to it. At the same time, the impoverished peasantry being forced to subsist on agriculture, opened up new avenues of exploitation for the rural upper classes: rack-renting, usury and petty-leasing. Thus, in both cases the emerging relations of production were distorted and ushered in a 'deformed' capitalist mode of production: the 'colonial mode of production'. In the post-colonial actuation the security of capital accumulation generated conflicts amongst different propertied classes and conditioned various forms of class alliances for the perpetuation of the status-quo and the structure of the state. In the process, the different propertied classes entered into alliances with the neo-colonial metropolitan bourgeoisie through the mediation of the state and reinforced the status-quo. In the face of the alliance, the lumpen-proletariats cannot sustain the contradictions that occasionally surface under extreme conditions of exploitation and subordination.

<p> This dissertation examines the embodied cultural practice of dance among several groups in the Kansas City area. The dance groups were studied as Communities of Practice (CoP), as outlined in the Lave-Wenger model of CoP. The CoP model uses the complementary concepts of &ldquo;reified structures&rdquo; and &ldquo;peripheral participation&rdquo; to explain social learning. This dissertation argues that participation in dance activities creates body schema and social bonds that make dance a powerful mechanism for learning and teaching social behaviors. The dance groups studied covered a spectrum of dance genres, including folkloric, popular, hip-hop, ballroom, ballet, and modern dance. Data were collected from participant observation, interviews, archives, cable TV shows, websites, and published materials. Archival documentation included photographic and video materials, as well as survey data available for secondary analysis. Grounded Theory Methodology based on qualitative data was deemed the most appropriate approach. By examining these dance groups, certain social processes were consistently observed, including 1) similarities in dance practice across groups led to similar social practices and processes over the lifespan; 2) differences in dance genre aesthetic structure were associated with different forms of CoP structure and organization; the more structured the aesthetic of the dance genre, the more structured and hierarchical the organization of the dance group; 3) certain factors/attributes of the CoPs contributed to the dance group&rsquo;s robustness and longevity; and 4) the mediation of time and space with other dancers during dance served as a model of interactions between self and others and developed the skills of collaboration. Overall, this study found the sharing and mediation of time and space during dance shaped individual social interactions into increasingly cooperative and collaborative activities. Also, the aesthetic structure of the dance genre was associated with the dance group's hierarchical social structure.</p>