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An archaeological survey for the Coulter Field environmental assessment project in Brazos County, Texas
(2015-06-03)
An archaeological survey of Coulter Field in Brazos County, Texas was conducted by Brazos Valley Research Associates for Walton & Associates, Inc. in January and February of 1989. The tract surveyed was 247.75 acres.
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An archaeological survey along a seismic line in Village Creek State Park Hardin County, Texas
(2015-06-03)
An Archaeological Survey was conducted along 6600 feet of seismic line with a right-of-way of ten feet for TGS Onshore Geophysical Company by Brazos Valley Research Associates on November 7, 1991. The area examined is ...
The Effects of College Quality and Size on Student Occupational Choice
(2015-08-06)
The author analyzed questionnaire responses from students in 99 colleges. College effects were much smaller than individual background factors and freshman occupational choices. Larger colleges tended to shift occupational ...
Social Mobility, Normlessness and Powerlessness in Two Cultural Contexts
(2015-08-06)
The author tests the idea that mobility can lead to anomie in societies where mobility is uncommon, less so in a society with greater mobility. He analyzed data from Costa Rica, Mexico and the U.S. in the Five Nation Survey. ...
Organizational Evaluation and Authority
(2015-07-21)
The authors describe four kinds of authority rights (legitimate attempts to control others) and analyze organizational authority systems in terms of the process by which participants’ performances are evaluated. They present ...
Status Inconsistency, Status Aspiration, Task Mobility, and Preferences for Specialization and Despecialization of Group Task Structure
(2015-07-28)
This technical report is a further elaboration of the exchange-based theory of status consistency and individuals’ reactions to various patterns that was presented in technical report 21. The extended theory predicts ...
Consistent and Inconsistent Social Characteristics and the Determination of Power and Prestige Orders
(2015-08-06)
The work reported here was significant in the generalization of the first theory of status characteristics and expectation states (Technical Report #12 and Berger et al., 1966). The first theory could only account for ...
Performance Expectation and Behavior in Small Groups
(2015-07-29)
This is a revision of Technical Report 18.
Status and Conflict: A Sociological Perspective on the Urban Race Problem
(2015-07-26)
Cohen’s intention here is to show how certain general principles of sociological theory can explain certain historical aspects of interracial behavior. Writing for a general, as distinct from a sociological, audience, Cohen ...
Status Perceptions
(2015-08-06)
The general issue in this report is whether one’s position in a hierarchy affects how one judges other positions. Important instances include judging occupational prestige and distributive justice. The author briefly ...