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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"social makeup"”.
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Social makeup and public school funding effort and distribution in the United States
… remains contested. In this study, states’ social makeups are examined as predictors of school funding effort and distribution. Measures of ethnic/racial and religious fractionalization (diversity) are included among these measures, thereby extending fractionalization theory into the realm …
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Charro Days: History, Culture, and Identity on the U.S.-Mexico Border
… my thesis, I explain Brownsville’s history and social makeup following the Mexican American War. I analyze the celebration and its social evolution decade by decade. I explore the ways in which Charro Days uses symbols of Mexicaness and Americaness to highlight the border’s unique position which …
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New social movements, Claus Offe, and environmental groups in British Columbia
New Social Movement Theory characterizes post 1960's protest movements such as the peace, environment and women's movement as being distinctively different from older movements such as the workers movement. The salient differences are in the social bases from which the movements draw their …
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An investigation of hydraulic and GIS processes to inform environmental justice decision-making regarding 10 percent annual chance flooding events
… accomplished by determining the demographic and social makeup of the people who reside within inland floodplains and evaluate if those factors meet the criteria of an environmental justice community -- a group of people within a community who endure a disproportionate burden of environmental …
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Integrating geographic information systems with the Level 3 Probabilistic Risk Assessment of nuclear power plants to advance modeling of socio-technical infrastructure in emergency response applications
Explicit incorporation of social and organizational factors into Level 1 Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) has been theoretically and methodologically improved and now is in the process of development for Nuclear Power Plant (NPPs) applications. The goal of this study is to initiate the same …