Are evangelical Christians conforming to the cultural patterns of the secular world? This is the question that motivates my dissertation. Despite media representations of orthodox Protestants as monolithically conservative ...

The Colonial project in India, which was based on the appropriation of an economic surplus, was given legitimacy with a discourse that spoke of the social, moral, and political redemption of the 'natives'. This discourse ...

Also, a student who moves from a low-resourced school to a high-resourced school is predicted to improve on later math and reading tests, while an accompanying change in the home situation (increase in income and parent ...

Internal causes of national underdevelopment drawn from contending arguments are not necessarily contradictory of, but rather complementary to, the external causes of underdevelopment highlighted by the dependency/world-system ...

The mortality decline in the more developed nations has been related to three factors: a reduction in exposure to disease, improved nutrition, and medical measures. The contribution of medical measures has been a source ...

Opinion research in major capitalist democracies has identified one of the key elements of legitimacy of the capitalist economic order in public opinion: popular adherence to the norms and beliefs that justify economic ...