13 research outputs found
Between the Flags
Get PDFSurfers say beware of calm surfaces where feeder currents run. Labour weekend, come Monda
Review of Kwamra: A Season of Harvest, by Russell Soaba; Captain Cook in the Underworld, by Robert Sullivan
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Electronic Information Systems and Human Service Organizations: The Unanticipated Consequences of Organizational Change
No full textSOME EFFECTS OF FILLERS ON THE DEFORMATION AND RUPTURE OF AN ELASTOMER**This paper constitutes one phase of research performed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Contract NAS7-100.
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Social support characteristics among nonclinical African-American and Filipino-American parents with school-age children
No full textStreet gangs
No full textGangs feature prominently in popular culture, from novels, songs and more recently film and video games. The serious study of gangs, however, only took off in the 1920s following the interest from the Chicago School of Sociology. In their analysis, gangs were a sign of social disorganization as a result of rapid urbanization. These early studies located gangs in particular spaces, notably the street corner and ‘slum’ neighborhood, but also linked them with social and political institutions. More recent studies have emphasized the gang as complex social phenomena and have noted the evolution of individual gangs, occasionally including a transnational dimension and links with terrorist and criminal organizations. Contemporary research is attentive to the economics of gangs, gender and social identity, and to the uses and effects of violence. Finally, the paper considers some of the policy approaches to gangs, especially in the Global South
