Carol J Ward
Biographic Data
| ID | 4192368 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carol J Ward |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carol J |
| FAMILY NAME | Ward |
| SIGNATURE | WARD C J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sociology Department Brigham Young University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Hopelessness and Youth Violent Behavior
Researchers have often neglected the role of hopelessness in violent behavior during adolescence. Moreover, little research has examined this relationship over time. Using data from Waves I and II of The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we explore the relationship between hopelessness and youth violent behavior over time. Poisson regression was used to analyze contributors to violence in just Wave I, and again across time in Wave…
Honoring Ralph B. Brown
At many points in his life journey, Ralph B. Brown made lasting contributions to students, colleagues, and friends as well as to rural sociology. In this essay, I would like to remember and honor some of these contributions. To begin with a few memories, in his last lecture (December 13, 2013), Ralph discussed a number of principles that guided his life. Fundamental among these were his love of learning, critical thinking, and a search for truth …
Adapting Focus Groups to a Rural Context
Focus group research needs to be modified when the focus groups are to be conducted in a rural area or with a rural population. The authors argue for “seeing the rural”: for recognizing rurality as a social context that affects research. Based on experience with North American rural focus groups, the authors propose six aspects of the design of rural focus groups in which rurality should be taken into account: conceptualizing the rural place, ide…
What Can Tribes Do? Strategies and Institutions in American Indian Economic Development
In the preface to What Can Tribes Do? Strategies and Institutions in American Indian Economic Development, Stephen Cornell and Joseph Kalt identify the purpose of this collection as addressing the scarcity of information needed for tribes to design solutions to recent threats to their sovereignty and obstacles to economic development. As the first major publication of research sponsored by the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Developme…
Death and Violence on the Reservation
Hopelessness and Youth Violent Behavior
Researchers have often neglected the role of hopelessness in violent behavior during adolescence. Moreover, little research has examined this relationship over time. Using data from Waves I and II of The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we explore the relationship between hopelessness and youth violent behavior over time. Poisson regression was used to analyze contributors to violence in just Wave I, and again across time in Wave…
Adapting Focus Groups to a Rural Context
Focus group research needs to be modified when the focus groups are to be conducted in a rural area or with a rural population. The authors argue for “seeing the rural”: for recognizing rurality as a social context that affects research. Based on experience with North American rural focus groups, the authors propose six aspects of the design of rural focus groups in which rurality should be taken into account: conceptualizing the rural place, ide…
Death and Violence on the Reservation
What Can Tribes Do? Strategies and Institutions in American Indian Economic Development
In the preface to What Can Tribes Do? Strategies and Institutions in American Indian Economic Development, Stephen Cornell and Joseph Kalt identify the purpose of this collection as addressing the scarcity of information needed for tribes to design solutions to recent threats to their sovereignty and obstacles to economic development. As the first major publication of research sponsored by the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Developme…
Adapting Focus Groups to a Rural Context
Focus group research needs to be modified when the focus groups are to be conducted in a rural area or with a rural population. The authors argue for “seeing the rural”: for recognizing rurality as a social context that affects research. Based on experience with North American rural focus groups, the authors propose six aspects of the design of rural focus groups in which rurality should be taken into account: conceptualizing the rural place, ide…
Honoring Ralph B. Brown
At many points in his life journey, Ralph B. Brown made lasting contributions to students, colleagues, and friends as well as to rural sociology. In this essay, I would like to remember and honor some of these contributions. To begin with a few memories, in his last lecture (December 13, 2013), Ralph discussed a number of principles that guided his life. Fundamental among these were his love of learning, critical thinking, and a search for truth …
Hopelessness and Youth Violent Behavior
Researchers have often neglected the role of hopelessness in violent behavior during adolescence. Moreover, little research has examined this relationship over time. Using data from Waves I and II of The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we explore the relationship between hopelessness and youth violent behavior over time. Poisson regression was used to analyze contributors to violence in just Wave I, and again across time in Wave…
Medicine (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Medical emergency (2 works) · Poison control (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Suicide prevention (2 works) · Agriculture (1 work) · Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression (1 work) · Business (1 work)