| STUDENT NAME EMAIL | SOCIAL POLICY RESEARCH PAPER -
theme/topic problem area or social issue |
SUMMARY BRIEFS (Mini-papers) -
"school/theory" writers/thinkers |
| Leslie,
Patricia pleslie05g@univ.llu.edu |
urban planning
and child welfare??? |
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| Jenkins,
Agnes ajenkins03g@univ.llu.edu |
How the concept of
child and family relate to environmental concepts in place and
time..... Anyway, the idea of how the institutions define 'home' might inform my interest in how those institutions define child maltreatment... child maltreatment indicators: paternal unemployment, housing, over crowding, car ownership |
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| Lynn,
Terry tlynn03g@univ.llu.edu |
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| Alenkin,
Nikola nalenkin04g@univ.llu.edu |
Skid row and social policy ?? & homelessness ?? demographics |
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| Lambson,
Julia jlambson03g@univ.llu.edu |
Children in poverty
environments and their experience of family violence. |
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| Long,
Mary mlong05g@univ.llu.edu |
chronically mentally
ill ?? |
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| Flores,
Brenda bflores03g@univ.llu.edu |
Role of socio-cultural
value systems and society's practice in determining social and economic
organization and population change. I would focus on the distribution of
population characteristics across and within particular communities, the
role of institutions and institutional arrangements in the formation and
distribution of these characteristics, and the effect of population change
(or lack of change) from these institutions and institutional
arrangements. |
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| Lindsey,
Vi vlindsey@univ.llu.edu |
social services law
enforcement and children
protection issues |
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| Freeman,
Kim kfreeman@univ.llu.edu |
Obesity as a national and global social policy issue and
problem and linkages to legal, institutional, scientific, ecological, and
political systems ?? |
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| Robert Gardner rgardner@univ.llu.edu |
central role of
ecology in the early sociology of poverty and welfare policy.
|
?? |
| Christopher ("seabob") |
... 'abstract
masculinity', the indirect power of men, vs the direct power of
women.... |
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| STUDENT NAME EMAIL | SOCIAL POLICY RESEARCH PAPER | SUMMARY BRIEFS (Mini-papers) |
| Morgan, Carol Ann | Correlation of the physical environment with chronic mental illness |
1. Environmental justice 2. Effect of physical environment on people 3. Variety of treatment environments for mental illness 4. Cost/benefit analysis of improved treatment environments |
| Neergard, James Otin | Sustainable development in developing countries |
1. Community-based development 2. Policies that support sustainability 3. ?? 4. ?? |
| Radak, Timothy Lawrence | ?? | 1. Impact of animal husbandry/agriculture
on: a) environment - methane, soil erosion, etc. b) health - now well-documented increased health risks w/commensurate animal product intake..... 2. Case study on handful of tribes/communities that practice a plant-based diet.... 3. Business and social responsibility - a solution for Community Redevelopment in the USA? 4. Disease and Diet e.g. a) does diet/dietary constituents play a role in Gout, acros the globe? |
| Sonnentag, Jeffrey Allen | What is known concerning sustainably high productivity farming techniques in rainforests and how can they be encouraged? What are the obstacles encountered and the means of overcoming them? |
1. What is known about high productivity
rainforest farming? (Historical background) 2. What can be learned from community efforts/projects to maintain/protect regions (land)? 3. What Christian ideas might influence society's interaction with the land in groups or on an individual basis? 4. What advantages/disadvantages might be realized by governments/countries and local communities by a shift in responsibility/decisions making for environment conditions from high authorities to individuals? |
| Sosa, Roland Antoine | ||
| Woods, Virginia Diane | Primary Prevention of Lifestyle Preventable Chronic Diseases: Implications from Social Ecology |
1. What is social ecology? How it evolved,
history, concepts/ideas 2. Religious/Ethical/Entitlement issues and primary prevention. 3. Economics and social ecology - how economics impacts social ecology? |