Ruth L Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 4086725 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth L Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth L |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH R L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Food & Nutrition |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Negotiating Homes
The word is highly evocative, carrying with it a strong sense of familiarity, safety, rest, and acceptance. In common parlance, to be is synonymous with being completely at ease and to be without a home is synonymous with profound disease. Even in the most difficult circumstances, people persist in making a home as it is the primary arrangement that human beings have developed to provide the sustaining activities of life and is for many people th…
Order and Disorder
he liberal belief in the freedom of all individuals to participate in citizenship and the marketplace makes it necessary for liberal theories to account for those who do not easily participate in these institutions. At the same time, this liberal belief makes attempts at such explanations difficult because the possibility that citizenship and the market are restrictive defies the terms of freedom and universality that constitute liberal explanati…
Mutuality and Marginality
Morality and Perceptions of Society
In this exploration of moral theory and its relation to social theory, the construct of self-interest and its moral counterpart in self-sacrifice is analyzed. The argument is made that the self-interest/selfsacrifice perpective is tied to certain historical assumptions in liberalism which, in their individualism, limit our view of human nature, institutions, and social relations. The perspective of mutuality is proposed as one way to reconceive o…
Tasks of Extension Family Food Aides
This research was designed: (1) to identify clusters of tasks and determine frequency of task performance of Extension food aides in Iowa and (2) to examine relationships between tasks performed by aides and place of residence, length of time on the job, age, and educational level of aides. A task list was developed, validated by experts, and pretested. Food aides responded on a 3‐point scale to the frequency of performance of 124 tasks. Data fro…
Order and Disorder
he liberal belief in the freedom of all individuals to participate in citizenship and the marketplace makes it necessary for liberal theories to account for those who do not easily participate in these institutions. At the same time, this liberal belief makes attempts at such explanations difficult because the possibility that citizenship and the market are restrictive defies the terms of freedom and universality that constitute liberal explanati…
Mutuality and Marginality
Tasks of Extension Family Food Aides
This research was designed: (1) to identify clusters of tasks and determine frequency of task performance of Extension food aides in Iowa and (2) to examine relationships between tasks performed by aides and place of residence, length of time on the job, age, and educational level of aides. A task list was developed, validated by experts, and pretested. Food aides responded on a 3‐point scale to the frequency of performance of 124 tasks. Data fro…
Morality and Perceptions of Society
In this exploration of moral theory and its relation to social theory, the construct of self-interest and its moral counterpart in self-sacrifice is analyzed. The argument is made that the self-interest/selfsacrifice perpective is tied to certain historical assumptions in liberalism which, in their individualism, limit our view of human nature, institutions, and social relations. The perspective of mutuality is proposed as one way to reconceive o…
Mutuality and Marginality
Order and Disorder
he liberal belief in the freedom of all individuals to participate in citizenship and the marketplace makes it necessary for liberal theories to account for those who do not easily participate in these institutions. At the same time, this liberal belief makes attempts at such explanations difficult because the possibility that citizenship and the market are restrictive defies the terms of freedom and universality that constitute liberal explanati…
Negotiating Homes
The word is highly evocative, carrying with it a strong sense of familiarity, safety, rest, and acceptance. In common parlance, to be is synonymous with being completely at ease and to be without a home is synonymous with profound disease. Even in the most difficult circumstances, people persist in making a home as it is the primary arrangement that human beings have developed to provide the sustaining activities of life and is for many people th…
Sociology (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Demography (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Morality (2 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Art (1 work)