From 1983-90, introductory sociology students from the University of Prince Edward Island were questioned about two independent sets of attitudes, each conceptualized along a continuum--hinterland attachment-metropolis attraction (perception of the goals) and hinterland isolationism-metropolis integ...

Issues associated with personnel planning & human resource development in small developing states are examined. Labor formation in small states faces numerous major difficulties, eg: extreme economic sensitivity & changing labor markets; scarcity of high-level personnel; existence of boom &a...

[1] Issues and policies -- [2] Case studies.

Analysis of household survey data collected from three villages of West Bengal, India, shows that caste status continues to be significantly related to structure. However, class status - whether based on occupation or landownership - has a stronger & statistically more significant relationship w...

Examines whether nuclear family households are gaining ground in India at the expense of joint family households, based on a questionnaire survey of all 544 households of 3 villages in the Arambagh region of the Hooghly District of West Bengal. The findings suggest that: (1) although the joint famil...

The value conflict between local & foreign human resource management styles was examined through case study analysis of the public & parastatal sectors in the Seychelles. Analysis of semistructured survey data from 20 officials & participants in those sectors, personal observation, &...

This dissertation provides a model of complementarity to address the issue of assessing the availability of adult children for parent care. The macro-oriented research indicates the importance of identifying potential care providers, while the micro-oriented research emphasizes the types of actual c...