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Kathleen V. McGrath – ProQuest LLC, 2021
School climate is a well-studied issue in educational research. However, surveys of school climate tend to be analyzed using item-centered as opposed to person-centered methods. The current study evaluated the 2018 South Carolina School Climate Survey using advanced applications of mixture modeling in an attempt to identify latent profiles at the…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Educational Policy, Models, Educational Environment
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Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald – Rural Sociology, 1987
Proposes social structural view of poverty rates as a function of local opportunity instead of individual-level focus on who is poor. Defines poverty rates as a function of industrial structure and relative power of labor in a locality. Confirms theoretical model with data from 46 South Carolina counties. (LFL)
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Definitions, Economic Opportunities, Employment Patterns
Howie, Marguerite Rogers; Underwood, Kathleen – 1979
Researchers in South Carolina set up a study and a measurement instrument to determine the powerlessness/alienation phenomenon among rural limited-resource people. They established a control group and an experimental group of black and white residents of six small South Carolina communities. With the control group, they conducted a traditional…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Alienation, Blacks, Community Involvement