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The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of scholarship support, gender and sport-ty... more The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of scholarship support, gender and sport-type (individual or team) on student-athlete retention. Student-athlete retention was defined by utilizing the Academic Progress Rate (APR) instituted by the National Collegiate Athletic Association in February, 2005. A single mid-major Division I Conference provided data (eight institutions) on student-athletes participating from 2001-2005, resulting in 12,980 total observations. Data were analyzed utilizing analysis of variance (ANOVA), discriminant function analysis, and binary logistic regression to determine the extent to which scholarship support, gender and sport type influenced retention. Results indicated scholarship support alone was not significantly related to retention; however, gender and sport type were significant predictors of retention with female and individual sport athletes retained at a higher rate than their male and team sport counterparts. Additionally, the combina...
J Contemp Ethnogr, 2005
He has been engaged in research, teaching, and administration for the past thirty years. His curr... more He has been engaged in research, teaching, and administration for the past thirty years. His current scholarly interests range from deviance through sport studies. His most notable work has been in the area of understanding the behaviors of convicted rapists.
Elementary School Journal, 1975
Sociometry, 1976
... Although Coopersmith has made significant headway in exploring parent-child interaction setti... more ... Although Coopersmith has made significant headway in exploring parent-child interaction settings that foster self-esteem, it is left for the sociologist to identify the macrostructures that facilitate those inter-actional forms. ... to make allowance for. . .action on (the) environment,. . ...
The Educational Forum, 1980
Sociological Inquiry, 1982
ABSTRACT
Social Problems, 1985
... When she went away to college and became involved with another man, his revenge lasted ... 9.... more ... When she went away to college and became involved with another man, his revenge lasted ... 9. Feminists as well as sociologists have tended to avoid the topic of interracial rape. Contributing to the avoid-ance is an awareness of historical and contemporary social injustice. ...
Deviant Behavior, 1986
Literature in the area of rape has been dominated by the psychiatric perspective leading to the v... more Literature in the area of rape has been dominated by the psychiatric perspective leading to the view of rape as an individualistic, ideosyncratic and psychopathological problem. This leads to a conception of the rapist as a special criminal who is somehow different from his fellow ...
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 2005
BRIAN A. MONAHAN is a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of Delaware. His current ... more BRIAN A. MONAHAN is a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of Delaware. His current research interests range from the ways in which certain meanings were constructed in relation to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and their aftermath to the microsociological aspects of criminal and deviant activity. JOSEPH A. MAROLLA is an associate professor of sociology and special assistant to the provost for instruction at Virginia Commonwealth University. He has been engaged in research, teaching, and administration for the past thirty years. His current scholarly interests range from deviance through sport studies. His most notable work has been in the area of understanding the behaviors of convicted rapists. "Perpetrators exhibit differential awareness of their own actions, apply divergent meanings to apparently similar actions, and engage in different degrees and types of organization."
The online version of this article can be found at:
The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of scholarship support, gender and sport-ty... more The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of scholarship support, gender and sport-type (individual or team) on student-athlete retention. Student-athlete retention was defined by utilizing the Academic Progress Rate (APR) instituted by the National Collegiate Athletic Association in February, 2005. A single mid-major Division I Conference provided data (eight institutions) on student-athletes participating from 2001-2005, resulting in 12,980 total observations. Data were analyzed utilizing analysis of variance (ANOVA), discriminant function analysis, and binary logistic regression to determine the extent to which scholarship support, gender and sport type influenced retention. Results indicated scholarship support alone was not significantly related to retention; however, gender and sport type were significant predictors of retention with female and individual sport athletes retained at a higher rate than their male and team sport counterparts. Additionally, the combina...
J Contemp Ethnogr, 2005
He has been engaged in research, teaching, and administration for the past thirty years. His curr... more He has been engaged in research, teaching, and administration for the past thirty years. His current scholarly interests range from deviance through sport studies. His most notable work has been in the area of understanding the behaviors of convicted rapists.
Elementary School Journal, 1975
Sociometry, 1976
... Although Coopersmith has made significant headway in exploring parent-child interaction setti... more ... Although Coopersmith has made significant headway in exploring parent-child interaction settings that foster self-esteem, it is left for the sociologist to identify the macrostructures that facilitate those inter-actional forms. ... to make allowance for. . .action on (the) environment,. . ...
The Educational Forum, 1980
Sociological Inquiry, 1982
ABSTRACT
Social Problems, 1985
... When she went away to college and became involved with another man, his revenge lasted ... 9.... more ... When she went away to college and became involved with another man, his revenge lasted ... 9. Feminists as well as sociologists have tended to avoid the topic of interracial rape. Contributing to the avoid-ance is an awareness of historical and contemporary social injustice. ...
Deviant Behavior, 1986
Literature in the area of rape has been dominated by the psychiatric perspective leading to the v... more Literature in the area of rape has been dominated by the psychiatric perspective leading to the view of rape as an individualistic, ideosyncratic and psychopathological problem. This leads to a conception of the rapist as a special criminal who is somehow different from his fellow ...
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 2005
BRIAN A. MONAHAN is a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of Delaware. His current ... more BRIAN A. MONAHAN is a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of Delaware. His current research interests range from the ways in which certain meanings were constructed in relation to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and their aftermath to the microsociological aspects of criminal and deviant activity. JOSEPH A. MAROLLA is an associate professor of sociology and special assistant to the provost for instruction at Virginia Commonwealth University. He has been engaged in research, teaching, and administration for the past thirty years. His current scholarly interests range from deviance through sport studies. His most notable work has been in the area of understanding the behaviors of convicted rapists. "Perpetrators exhibit differential awareness of their own actions, apply divergent meanings to apparently similar actions, and engage in different degrees and types of organization."