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Inmate Movements and Prison Uprisings: A Comparative Study.
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Pederson, William D. – Social Science Quarterly, 1978
Fifteen "criminal" and political uprisings from inmate movements in American, Soviet, and German prisons are compared. Conditions of deprivation related to prison violence are linked with attitudinal, structural, and temporal factors. Findings are that inmate movements are a rare phenomenon in comparison with isolated prison uprisings. (KC)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Comparative Analysis, Group Behavior
Ethnicity: Theory and the Analysis of Political Domains.
Despres, Leo A. – 1979
The paper discusses the meaning and significance of ethnicity, with emphasis on the political role of ethnicity in groups. Information is presented from a review of literature regarding groups from four viewpoints--subjective/behavioral strategies, social science research, ethnographic interpretations, and the culture-population-group frame of…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Behavioral Science Research, Concept Formation, Culture Conflict