Garry W Hesser
Biographic Data
| ID | 6097290 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Garry W Hesser |
| GIVEN NAMES | Garry W |
| FAMILY NAME | Hesser |
| SIGNATURE | HESSER G W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Augsburg University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Internships and the Sociological Perspective
Most sociology departments provide students with the opportunity to participate in an internship. Yet faculty members often remain skeptical about the academic rigor of such experience-based learning. This paper argues that internships help students achieve the educational goals of most sociology programs. lnternships provide students with an extended opportunity to apply the sociological perspective to a real world setting. They also enable stud…
Evaluating and redesigning subsidy policies for home rehabilitation
The Social Neighborhood
This article analyzes both theoretically and empirically the relationship between owner-occupants' housing maintenance behavior and their social relationships within their neighborhoods. This "social dimension" of the neighborhood is posited as affecting maintenance through pressures for conforming to group housing standards. Hypotheses are derived from this theory and empirical tests are conducted using a sample of homeowners from Wooster, Ohio,…
Residential Satisfaction
A theory of residential satisfaction is developed and used in the specification of a path model wherein compositional characteristics of households and the context of the dwelling and neighborhood in which they live influence various dimensions of satisfaction. Relationships are estimated for 767 households sampled in Wooster, Ohio, in 1975, using two-stage least-squares techniques. Results show that certain households demonstrate less satisfacti…
Internships and the Sociological Perspective
Most sociology departments provide students with the opportunity to participate in an internship. Yet faculty members often remain skeptical about the academic rigor of such experience-based learning. This paper argues that internships help students achieve the educational goals of most sociology programs. lnternships provide students with an extended opportunity to apply the sociological perspective to a real world setting. They also enable stud…
Evaluating and redesigning subsidy policies for home rehabilitation
Residential Satisfaction
A theory of residential satisfaction is developed and used in the specification of a path model wherein compositional characteristics of households and the context of the dwelling and neighborhood in which they live influence various dimensions of satisfaction. Relationships are estimated for 767 households sampled in Wooster, Ohio, in 1975, using two-stage least-squares techniques. Results show that certain households demonstrate less satisfacti…
The Social Neighborhood
This article analyzes both theoretically and empirically the relationship between owner-occupants' housing maintenance behavior and their social relationships within their neighborhoods. This "social dimension" of the neighborhood is posited as affecting maintenance through pressures for conforming to group housing standards. Hypotheses are derived from this theory and empirical tests are conducted using a sample of homeowners from Wooster, Ohio,…
Evaluating and redesigning subsidy policies for home rehabilitation
Internships and the Sociological Perspective
Most sociology departments provide students with the opportunity to participate in an internship. Yet faculty members often remain skeptical about the academic rigor of such experience-based learning. This paper argues that internships help students achieve the educational goals of most sociology programs. lnternships provide students with an extended opportunity to apply the sociological perspective to a real world setting. They also enable stud…
Housing Market and Economics (3 works) · Place Attachment and Urban Studies (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Sample (material) (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (2 works) · Actuarial science (1 work) · Aggregate (composite) (1 work) · Business (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work)