ADVANCES IN SOCIOLOGY RESEARCH VOLUME 10 ; ADVANCES IN SOCIOLOGY RESEARCH VOLUME 10 ; Contents; Preface; Dinnertime Rituals for Children in Married and Divorced Families: Explaining the Link Between Divorce and Academic Motivation; Abstract; Middle Childhood; Achievement Motivation; Diet Quality; Family Meals; Dinnertime; Divorce; Summary and Statement of Purpose of the Present Study; Hypotheses; Method; Participants; Materials; Packet; Procedure; Measures; Parent Interview; Child Interview.; Child Diary.; Results; Hypothesis 1.; Hypothesis 2.; Hypothesis 3.; Hypothesis 4.; Hypothesis 5
DiscussionObesity Risk and Eating Habits; Dinnertime Rituals/Routines and Obesity Risk.; Dinnertime Rituals/Routines and Eating Habits.; Achievement Motivation; Family Structure and Achievement Motivation.; Dinnertime Rituals/Routines and Achievement Motivation.; Achievement Motivation and Eating Habits.; Implications; Limitations.; Future Directions.; References; Appendix A; Demography and Political Control in 1930s Italy: Evidence from the Agro Pontino; Introduction; Demography and Coercion; Internal Colonization and the Pontine Marshes; Selecting Colonists through Coercion
Colonizing the MarshesConclusion; References; Secular Trends in Growth and Sexual Maturity in Europe: An Example for the Complex Interaction between Social Change and Human Biology; Abstract; Introduction; Biology of growth and maturation; Intrinsic factors; Genetic factors influencing growth and development; Hormonal factors; Extrinsic factors; Nutritional factors; Infection and disease; Psychic stress; Fetal conditions; Socioeconomic factors; Secular trends; Secular trends in body height and age at menarche; Body height; Age at menarche; Reasons for the Secular Trend; Historical aspects
Living conditions and growth and maturationNew Secular Trends; Conclusion; References; Is There a Magic Formula? Mate Selection and the Optimization of the Marriage Market; Abstract; 1. Introduction; 2. Dynamic of the Marriage Market: What Makes Couples Split?; 2.1 Religion, partnerships and divorce; 2.2 Depression and divorce; 3. Data and Parameters; 4. Minimizing Divorce by Mean of Linear Assignment; 5. Implementation and Results; Global results; 5.2 Profile analysis; 6. Conclusion; References; University's and Hospital's Movements toward the 'Customer' Metaphor: Attitudes and Consequences
AbstractIntroduction; The 'Customer' Metaphor in the University; and Hospital Contexts; Students as customers; Patients as customers; The notion of the 'customer' metaphor; Methodology; Attitude toward the 'Customer' Metaphor; Relationship between the respondent characteristics and attitudes toward the 'customer' metaphor; Consequences of the 'Customer' Metaphor on Universities and Hospitals; Consequences of the 'student-as-customer' metaphor; Consequences of the 'patients-as-customer' metaphor; Key Findings; Implication for Universities and Hosptals; Limitations and Future Study; Conclusion
