Tag: Involvement

Free Download Lieven Pauwels, "Problematic Youth Group Involvement as Situated Choice: Testing an Integrated Condition-Controls-Exposure Model"
English | ISBN: 9462365938 | 2016 | 228 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The present study deals with young adolescents’ involvement in what is generally referred to as a problematic youth group. This book develops an overarching metatheoretical framework that is useful for the development and testing of integrated models. The authors describe an integrated Conditions-Controls-Exposure model and present descriptive and theorytesting analyses. Special attention is paid to the end-to-end integration of the micro ecological setting, social controls (social bonds, monitoring, school social bond), personal controls (moral beliefs, locus of control and self-control), and the situational context. The implications of the findings for future research are discussed. *** Librarians: ebook available [Subject: Sociology, Criminology, Youth Studies]

Free Download Parental Involvement on Children’s Education: What Works in Hong Kong By Esther Sui-Chu Ho, Wai-Man Kwong (auth.)
2013 | 162 Pages | ISBN: 9814021989 | PDF | 3 MB
This book is based on the empirical work of a large-scale project to investigate the possible impacts of diversified forms of parental involvement on children and school by first exploring through a series of ethnographic case studies how principals, teachers and parents perceive and act on parental involvement in the primary schools of Hong Kong and, then, examining how the different forms and levels of parental involvement are related to individual and institutional factors through a series of survey studies on all these stakeholders in children’s education. Finally, the book assesses the extent to which different forms of parental involvement affect student performance based on student survey results and available school records.​

Free Download Joseph B.R. B.R. Gaie, "The Ethics of Medical Involvement in Capital Punishment: A Philosophical Discussion"
English | 2004 | pages: 164 | ISBN: 904816494X, 1402017642 | PDF | 1,0 mb
The morality of capital punishment has been debated for a long time. This however has 1 not resulted in the settlement of the question either way. Philosophers are still divided. In this work I am not addressing the morality of capital punishment per se. My question is different but related. It is this. Whether or not capital punishment is morally right, is it moral or immoral for medical doctors to be involved in the practice? To deal with this question I start off in Chapter One delineating the sort of involvement the medical associations consider to be morally problematic for medical doctors in capital punishment. They make a distinction between what they call 2 "medicalisation" of and "involvement" in capital punishment, and argue that there is a moral distinction between the two. Whilst it is morally acceptable for doctors to be "involved" in capital punishment, according to the medical associations, it is immoral to medicalise the practice. I clarify this position and show what moral issues arise. I then suggest that there should not be a distinction between the two. The medical associations argue that the medicalisation of capital punishment, especially the use by medical doctors of lethal injection to execute condemned prisoners is immoral and therefore should be prohibited, because it involves doctors in doing what is against the aims of medicine.

Free Download The Vanishing Voter: Public Involvement in an Age of Uncertainty by Thomas E. Patterson
English | 2002 | ISBN: 0375414061 | 272 Pages | EPUB | 2.5 MB
The disputed presidential election of 2000 highlighted a range of flaws in the American voting system, from ballot procedures to alleged voter intimidation to questions about the fairness of the Electoral College. But as Harvard University political scientist Thomas E. Patterson shows, one problem dwarfs all of these, a predicament that has been increasing since the 1960s and threatens the very foundations of our democracy: fewer and fewer Americans participate in elections. They are less likely to vote, less likely to contribute money to campaigns, and less likely to talk about candidates. They even are less likely to tune in the televised presidential debates.

Free Download Kundenzufriedenheit und Involvement By Kurt Matzler (auth.)
1997 | 263 Pages | ISBN: 3824466244 | PDF | 7 MB
Kundenzufriedenheit ist wesentliche Voraussetzung für langfristigen Unternehmenserfolg. Faktoren wie Markenloyalität, Wiederkaufverhalten, Einstellungsänderungen, Word-of-Mouth und Beschwerdeverhalten stehen hiermit in engem kausalen Zusammenhang. Kurt Matzler untersucht, auf welche Weise Kundenzufriedenheit entsteht, welche Zusammenhänge zwischen Produkteigenschaften und Kundenzufriedenheit bestehen und welche Rolle dabei die Tiefe der Informationsverarbeitung des Kunden spielt.