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The Family as Process and Institution

Book by Clifford Kirkpatrick; Ronald Press, 1955

Subjects:

Family, Marriage

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...in the extended residential family, the kindred, the lineage...marriage. The term consanguineal family is somewhat vaguely applied...interactions within the biological family. It is hard for persons reared...in the affairs of nuclear families. In many cultures husband...Interrelationship of Group and Institution . The above contrast between...
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Family: The Making of an Idea, an Institution, and a Controversy in American Culture

Book by Betty G. Farrell; Westview Press, 1999

Subjects:

Family--United States, Family--United States--History, United States--Social Conditions

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...interdisciplinary inquiry because it is an institution at the center of these debates...interest of documenting specific family experiences, firmly rooted...broader and richer program of family studies. As we approach the end of a century of academic family studies, popular interest...the state of contemporary families has not abated. Discourse...
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The Locus of Care: Families, Communities, Institutions, and the Provision of Welfare since Antiquity

Book by Peregrine Horden, Richard Smith; Routledge, 1998

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...normally be returned to their families. Older children would...domestic service in a family. Families were thus prepared to delegate to an institution the task of raising their...especially an option for large families, burdened with many mouths...
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Correctional Institutions

Book by Robert Melvin Carter, Daniel Glaser; Lippincott, 1977

Subjects:

Correctional Institutions--United States, Corrections--United States

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...rules and regulations of the institution, she is required to make...home. Separation from her family, her husband or lover...maintain close contact with her family and friends on the outside...lives and works. 3 PRISON FAMILIES Organization and Roles The...organization of correctional institutions where women are placed is centered around a family system. The array of family...
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The Smithsonian Institution, 1846-1896: The History of Its First Half Century

Book by George Brown Goode; Smithsonian Institution, 1897

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Smithsonian Institution--History

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...one tribes belonging to twenty-eight families were enumerated. Even more closely...plan communicated to the Smithsonian Institution in 1851 by Professor William W. Turner...were made under the auspices of the Institution, while these collections formed the...

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Journal Articles on: families institution

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Jona M. Rosenfeld and Bruno Tardieu, Artisans of Democracy: How Ordinary People, Families in Extreme Poverty, and Social Institutions Become Allies to Overcome Social Exclusion

Journal article by David Kahane; Social Theory and Practice, Vol. 28, 2002

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Artisans of Democracy: How Ordinary People, Families in Extreme Poverty, and Social Institutions Become Allies to Overcome Social Exclusion (Book)

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...Ordinary People, Families in Extreme Poverty...the school and families of the very poor...for members of institutions that exclude...out; the social institution is shut in. Both...members of the institution, and that can...remaking of the institution. Immanent principles...understanding of existing institutions that is much closer...
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Revitalizing the Institution of Marriage for the Twenty-First Century

Journal article by Renjini Sooryamoorthy; Journal of Comparative Family Studies, Vol. 35, 2004

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Revitalizing the Institution of Marriage for the Twenty-First Century (Book)--Book reviews

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...its Limits in Marriage and Families the author describes the...put much support in the institution of marriage and protect...marriage is still the best institution for raising children. Schneider...the way to revitalize the institution of marriage and he believes that familial institutions rest primarily on culture...
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Twenty American Families' Stories of Adaptation: Adoption of Children from Russian and Romanian Institutions

Journal article by Deanna Linville, Anne Prouty Lyness; Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, Vol. 33, 2007

Subjects:

Adoption, Families & family life, Family counseling, Language disorders, Parents & parenting

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...the adoption families; and (d) outcome...examining adoptive family experiences...eastern European institutions with specific...experiences of American families who had adopted...orphanage or institution in Romania or...to their new family constellation...which participant families adapted postadoption...have examined family experiences of...a child from institutions after the age...
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Competing Institutions: Law, Medicine, and Family in Neonatal Intensive Care

Journal article by Carol A. Heimer; Law & Society Review, Vol. 33, 1999

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Competition, Decision making, Families & family life, Health care industry, Law, Legal professions

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...between spheres. Families, the state, and...medicine, and the family more influential...The success of an institution depends on the interests...organizational legitimacy, institutions provide cognitive...infants and that family institutions would dominate medical...be to protect the family, as the physicians...procedures would reinforce families rights to participate...
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Pregnancy Discrimination in Educational Institutions: a Proposal to Amend the Family Medical Leave Act of 1993

Journal article by Susan A. Kidwell; Texas Law Review, Vol. 79, 2001

Subjects:

Discrimination, Educators, Family Leave Act 1993-US, Federal court decisions, History, Maternity & paternity leaves, Personnel policies, Public schools, State court decisions, Supreme Court decisions, United States

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...needs of children with the family leave needs of teachers...schoolteachers have the same rights to family medical leave as other employees...between professional and family life and may signal a transition...employees of educational institutions." 2. Add (a)(1)(C): "any institution of higher education and an...

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Magazine Articles on: families institution

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How Do Public Institutions Handle Family/youth Issues?: a Review of Public Opinion Data

Magazine article; PM. Public Management, Vol. 79, March 1997

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Families & family life, Government, Public opinion surveys, Public policy

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How Do Public Institutions Handle Family/youth Issues...future of American families and the roles that...rather than to help the family "in trying to achieve...specific needs of families and children? Education...children. Next to family, schools are considered the institution that has the most...
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How Do Public Institutions Handle Family/Youth Issues? A Review of Public Opinion Data

Magazine article; Public Management, Vol. 79, March 1997

Subjects:

Family life surveys--Analysis, Family policy--Surveys, Social surveys--Analysis

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...How Do Public Institutions Handle Family/Youth Issues...future of American families and the roles...solutions for families. The public...than to help the family "in trying to...you a list of institutions in American society...specific needs of families and children...children. Next to family, schools are considered the institution that has the...
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Bill and Camille Cosby: First Family of Philanthropy; $20 Million Gift to Spelman Is Largest Ever in History of Black Institutions

Magazine article by Robert E. Johnson; Ebony, Vol. 44, May 1989

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African American universities and colleges--Contributions, gifts, etc., African Americans--Contributions, gifts, etc., Cosby, Bill--Contributions, gifts, etc., Cosby, Camille--Contributions, gifts, etc., Spelman College--Contributions, gifts, etc.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...and Camille Cosby: first family of philanthropy; $20 million...ever in history of Black institutions by Robert E. Johnson...ever in history of Black institutions TELEVISIONS No. 1 star...107-year-old Atlanta institution. Cosby said the contribution...large number of people these institutions have graduated, should...
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Tony Beard Jr. Sergeant Superior: Members of the Beard Family Have Helped Protect the California Capitol for Almost 100 Years. Today's Sergeant at Arms in the Senate Is "Keeper of the Institution."

Magazine article by Daniel Weintraub; State Legislatures, Vol. 32, February 2006

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Beard, Tony, Jr.--Evaluation, Beard, Tony, Jr.--Political activity, Bowen, Debra--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Legislators--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Legislators--Evaluation, Legislators--Political activity, Senators--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes

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...Superior: Members of the Beard Family Have Helped Protect the California...Senate Is "Keeper of the Institution.". by Daniel Weintraub...appreciation and respect for the institution. He has the most professional...see him as the keeper of the institution, as someone who makes sure...
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Passport to Healthy Families

Magazine article by Janet Schadee; Corrections Today, Vol. 65, June 2003

Subjects:

Community service, Community services, Correctional institutions, Family life, Prisoners--Social aspects

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...to fund IWPs Passport for Healthy Families program--a component of the Family Preservation Program--which is...offenders with "passports" to healthier families while they are in prison and once they are discharged. The Family Preservation Program has received...TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families), Social Security cards and birth certificates, that may assist the family. In addition, the outreach coordinator...

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Newspaper Articles on: families institution

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THE FABULOUS BAKER BOYS; Legendary Tunnock's Boss Lifts Lid on the Secrets That Make the Family Firm a Scottish Institution

Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), March 13, 2010

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...on the Secrets That Make the Family Firm a Scottish Institution. Byline: Samantha Booth ICONIC...Wallace. Tunnocks is also a truly family business with a kind and caring...together, continuing the proud family tradition. In 1955, Tom married...
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Maryville to Pay in Girl's Death Institution to Pay Bulk of $600,000 Deal to Family

Newspaper article by Rob Olmstead; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), June 28, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Maryville to Pay in Girls Death Institution to Pay Bulk of $600,000 Deal to Family. by Rob Olmstead Byline...proposed settlement to the family of a girl who killed herself...We just want want the family to have closure," Ryan said...are now living with other families, unaware those families are...
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Whatever Happened to the Great Family Holiday by the Seaside?; IT'S THE END OF AN INSTITUTION AS DAD HITS THE PUB, MUM'S IN THE TATTOO PARLOUR AND THE CHILDREN ROAM THE ARCADES

Newspaper article by Colin Wills; Sunday Mirror (London, England), August 8, 1999

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Seaside?; ITS THE END OF AN INSTITUTION AS DAD HITS THE PUB, MUMS...been going backwards." The family have been here five days and...Same again barman." The family holiday. How quaint that...of the new millennium, the family holiday is fast going the...it came home to me how some families solve the problem of spending...
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Travel: A Raining Champion; It's as Much a Great British Institution as Fish and Chips. SYLVIE DALTON Takes the Family on a Break at Butlins and Finds That the Hi-De-Hi Holiday Camp Image Has Long Been Swept Away

Newspaper article; Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England), March 27, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Raining Champion; Its as Much a Great British Institution as Fish and Chips. SYLVIE DALTON Takes the Family on a Break at Butlins and Finds That the...gift, toy and grocery shops and arcades. Family entertainment is provided in the afternoon...
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MY SISTER WAS 'LOST' FOR 35 YEARS; When ' Ten-Year-Old Clare Williams Was Written off as Impossible to Educate in 1957, Her Family Had No Choice but to Send Her to a Mental Institution, Where She Remained for More Than Three Decades. Here, 13 Years after Her Death, Her Younger Sister, Novelist Emma Henderson (above), Reveals How She's Finally Given Clare the Voice She Never Had

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), May 30, 2010

Subjects:

Novelists--Personal narratives, Psychiatric hospital care--Personal narratives, Psychiatric hospitals--Personal narratives

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Impossible to Educate in 1957, Her Family Had No Choice but to Send Her to a Mental Institution, Where She Remained for More...for the disabled and their families. Out of sight, out of mind...of this period show a happy family, with Clare a pretty, blonde...was, but the damage to the family must have been considerable...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: families institution

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Day Nursery

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...day-care center, or creche kresh, institution for the care of the children of working...care services to children from poor families. The day nursery should not be confused...the nursery school , an educational institution with different objectives. See E...
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Heraldry

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...identifying individuals or families. In the Middle Ages the herald...authority on personal and family insignia. As earlier functions...The use of personal and family insignia is ancient (it is...heraldry proper is a feudal institution developed by noblemen using...to be transmitted to their families. It is thought to have originated...
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Clements, Frederic Edward

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...to 1941 he was in charge of ecological research at Carnegie Institution, Washington. Among his works are Research Methods in Ecology...Succession and Indicators (1928, repr. 1973), Flower Families and Ancestors (1928, with Edith Clements), Plant Ecology...
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Slavery

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Slavery A revolution in the institution of slavery came in the 15th...argued that, while the institution produced great wealth under...staunchly opposed to the institution. In the South, however...which often tore slave families apart, was the Souths second...saw a threat to Southern institutions, and the Southern states...
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West Virginia

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...reelected in 2008. The states leading institution of higher learning is West Virginia...the valleys from Pennsylvania. German families established (c.1730) a settlement...settlers. The brutal murder of the family of chief James Logan provoked a series...division in allegiance was common in many families, and these divisions affected West...

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