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Nazarova, Inna Borisovna – Russian Education and Society, 2008
In the present article, the relevant and little-studied issue of the typology of instructors in institutions of higher learning is examined using the example of educators conducting the cycle of economic disciplines. In 2003 and 2004 a survey was conducted of the corps of instructors in fourteen higher educational institutions of four cities…
Descriptors: Colleges, Focus Groups, Classification, College Faculty
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Ahmed, Patricia; Feliciano, Cynthia; Emigh, Rebecca Jean – Social Forces, 2007
Survey data for majority and minority ethnicities in Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Russia illustrate how internal ethnic identification and other social characteristics influence external ethnic classification. Logistic regressions show how interviewers use negative social characteristics (poverty, low education) to classify respondents as Roma…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnicity, Social Characteristics, Surveys
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Mesch, Gustavo S.; Turjeman, Hagit; Fishman, Gideon – New Directions for Youth Development, 2008
Whereas traditional criminological theories treat juvenile delinquency largely as a reactive and expressive behavior that only seldom leads to specialized criminal offending or a criminal career, this article proposes an alternative classification of offenses that accounts for the difference between youthful reactive conduct and specialized…
Descriptors: Violence, Delinquency, Criminals, Foreign Countries