Sheryl R Tynes
Biographic Data
| ID | 5368035 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sheryl R Tynes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sheryl R |
| FAMILY NAME | Tynes |
| SIGNATURE | TYNES S R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Trinity University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Trinity University’s Summer Bridge Program
Recognizing the changing demographics of students applying to college coupled with Trinity University’s responsibility to help our students succeed, we have created a Summer Bridge program that focuses on first-generation, underrepresented students (FGUS). Trinity’s Summer Bridge program has been a success—both in terms of student performance and retention. The central purpose of our article is to explain how Trinity University’s Summer Bridge pr…
The Courage to Teach
Bringing Social Class Home
Although sociologists frequently utilize the concept of social class, discussions about the issue can lead to perfunctory references to the role of education, occupational prestige, and income as the variables used to measure social class. This paper provides an overview of social class, poverty, and welfare issues, as well as two in-class projects designed to inject realism and creativity into the study of these subjects. The first project invol…
Turning Points in Social Security
Journal Article Turning Points in Social Security: From “Cruel Hoax” to “Sacred Entitlement” By Sheryl R. Tynes. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. xii, 253 pp. $39.50, ISBN0-8047-2579-9.) Get access Karen Hult Karen Hult Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 4, March 1997, Pages 1459–…
Turning Points in Social Security
This work is a theoretically informed political history of the development of the U.S. Social Security system over more than five decades. When initiated in 1935, Social Security was a noteworthy experiment in social policy, and its endurance, inviolability, and taken-for-granted nature are evidence of its success. In this volume, the author analyzes key turning points in its history in order to provide an understanding of the various forces that…
The Walking Wounded
Several popular and academic works have reiterated Marx's concern over the issue of social class polarization in capitalist societies. Marx characterized this polarization as the increasing concentration of wealth and poverty in the upper and lower classes, respectively, coupled with a disappearing middle class. Building on these ideas, other work suggests a process of fragmented polarization with an increasing economic, political, social, and ps…
Turning Points in Social Security
This work is a theoretically informed political history of the development of the U.S. Social Security system over more than five decades. When initiated in 1935, Social Security was a noteworthy experiment in social policy, and its endurance, inviolability, and taken-for-granted nature are evidence of its success. In this volume, the author analyzes key turning points in its history in order to provide an understanding of the various forces that…
The Changing Contract across Generations
Generational conflict has attracted considerable attention in the media and within academic circles during the past decade. At the center of this collection of papers analyzing various facets of that conflict lie complex issues of generational equity--issues that will remain important for the framing of public policy during the 1990s, What do the young and the middle-aged owe the elderly? In discharging that debt, to what extent are they able to …
Educational heterogamy and marital satisfaction between spouses
Educational heterogamy and marital satisfaction between spouses
Bringing Social Class Home
Although sociologists frequently utilize the concept of social class, discussions about the issue can lead to perfunctory references to the role of education, occupational prestige, and income as the variables used to measure social class. This paper provides an overview of social class, poverty, and welfare issues, as well as two in-class projects designed to inject realism and creativity into the study of these subjects. The first project invol…
The Courage to Teach
The Changing Contract across Generations
Generational conflict has attracted considerable attention in the media and within academic circles during the past decade. At the center of this collection of papers analyzing various facets of that conflict lie complex issues of generational equity--issues that will remain important for the framing of public policy during the 1990s, What do the young and the middle-aged owe the elderly? In discharging that debt, to what extent are they able to …
Educational heterogamy and marital satisfaction between spouses
The Changing Contract across Generations
Generational conflict has attracted considerable attention in the media and within academic circles during the past decade. At the center of this collection of papers analyzing various facets of that conflict lie complex issues of generational equity--issues that will remain important for the framing of public policy during the 1990s, What do the young and the middle-aged owe the elderly? In discharging that debt, to what extent are they able to …
Turning Points in Social Security
This work is a theoretically informed political history of the development of the U.S. Social Security system over more than five decades. When initiated in 1935, Social Security was a noteworthy experiment in social policy, and its endurance, inviolability, and taken-for-granted nature are evidence of its success. In this volume, the author analyzes key turning points in its history in order to provide an understanding of the various forces that…
Turning Points in Social Security
Journal Article Turning Points in Social Security: From “Cruel Hoax” to “Sacred Entitlement” By Sheryl R. Tynes. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. xii, 253 pp. $39.50, ISBN0-8047-2579-9.) Get access Karen Hult Karen Hult Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 4, March 1997, Pages 1459–…
Turning Points in Social Security
This work is a theoretically informed political history of the development of the U.S. Social Security system over more than five decades. When initiated in 1935, Social Security was a noteworthy experiment in social policy, and its endurance, inviolability, and taken-for-granted nature are evidence of its success. In this volume, the author analyzes key turning points in its history in order to provide an understanding of the various forces that…
The Walking Wounded
Several popular and academic works have reiterated Marx's concern over the issue of social class polarization in capitalist societies. Marx characterized this polarization as the increasing concentration of wealth and poverty in the upper and lower classes, respectively, coupled with a disappearing middle class. Building on these ideas, other work suggests a process of fragmented polarization with an increasing economic, political, social, and ps…
Bringing Social Class Home
Although sociologists frequently utilize the concept of social class, discussions about the issue can lead to perfunctory references to the role of education, occupational prestige, and income as the variables used to measure social class. This paper provides an overview of social class, poverty, and welfare issues, as well as two in-class projects designed to inject realism and creativity into the study of these subjects. The first project invol…
The Courage to Teach
Trinity University’s Summer Bridge Program
Recognizing the changing demographics of students applying to college coupled with Trinity University’s responsibility to help our students succeed, we have created a Summer Bridge program that focuses on first-generation, underrepresented students (FGUS). Trinity’s Summer Bridge program has been a success—both in terms of student performance and retention. The central purpose of our article is to explain how Trinity University’s Summer Bridge pr…
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Economics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Mathematics education (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Social security (3 works)