Social Background Characteristics of Nonpartisan City Council Members: A Research Note

1985 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 495 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol A. Cassel
Keyword(s):  
Social Background ◽  
City Council ◽  
Research Note ◽  
Background Characteristics

Social Background Characteristics of Nonpartisan City Council Members

1985 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 495-501 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. A. Cassel
Keyword(s):  
Social Background ◽  
City Council ◽  
Background Characteristics

Are Social Background Models Time-Bound?

1986 ◽  
Vol 80 (3) ◽  
pp. 957-967 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Sidney Ulmer
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Research Note ◽  
Background Model ◽  
Confounding Variable ◽  
Background Models

In this research note I seek to determine whether a significantly predicting social background model for analyzing the votes of Supreme Court justices is time-bound. I argue that an affirmative result poses serious questions for past uses of such models, none of which has controlled for the possibility that time is a confounding variable. A model that significantly predicted the votes of the justices in the Court's 1903–1968 terms was constructed. Analysis with this model for two periods—from 1903 to 1935, and from 1936 to 1968—established that the model was not timeneutral. Appropriate theoretical implications are drawn.

Social background characteristics and performance of West Point cadets

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ariel A. Jones ◽  
Timothy S. Allison-Aipa ◽  
Paul T. Bartone
Keyword(s):  
Social Background ◽  
West Point ◽  
Background Characteristics ◽  
And Performance

Delinquent Girls before the Courts

1977 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 203-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
David May
Keyword(s):  
Social Background ◽  
Background Characteristics ◽  
Female Delinquency ◽  
Slight Tendency ◽  
Delinquent Girls ◽  
Demographic Background

One hundred and twenty-six delinquent girls are compared with 730 boys drawn from the same population of schoolchildren in terms of the pattern of their delinquency, certain socio-demographic background characteristics and their disposal by the courts. The prevalence, frequency and seriousness of female delinquency is found to be much less than that of the boys. However, in terms of social background and offence behaviour the similarities are more marked than any differences. Sex-related offences form an insignificant part of female delinquency. Courts show a slight tendency to deal more severely with females. Caution in the use of institutional samples for the study of female delinquency is suggested.

Research Note: Father’s Occupation and Social Background: Relation to SAT Scores

1984 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 473-478
Author(s):  
Helene F. Belz ◽  
David C. Geary
Keyword(s):  
Social Background ◽  
Research Note ◽  
Sat Scores

scholarly journals News Consumption across Media Platforms and Content

2020 ◽  
Vol 84 (S1) ◽  
pp. 332-354
Author(s):  
Sabine Geers
Keyword(s):  
Digital Divide ◽  
News Media ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Online News ◽  
Information Environment ◽  
Background Characteristics ◽  
Media Usage ◽  
News Content ◽  
News Consumption ◽  
Media Repertoires

Abstract In a changing information environment in which people increasingly select a combination of media platforms to consume news, scholars have taken a more comprehensive approach in measuring news consumption by examining news media repertoires. This study specifically (1) examines news repertoires of young people, based on their combined usage of media platforms and news content preferences; and (2) examines their variation due to social background characteristics. Results from a survey of Dutch adolescents (N = 1,084; age 16 to 21) reveal four distinct news repertoires: labeled minimalists, omnivores, traditionalists, and online news users. Findings further suggest that platform-based news repertoires are related to preferences for specific news content. Finally, this study contributes to the digital divide literature by demonstrating that inequalities in news media usage related to education do not seem to apply to younger citizens.

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