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  title info:
    non sort: An
    title: empirical survey investigation of energy conserving behavior of Texas citizens utilizing the human ecology theoretical perspective
  name:
    name part: Parks, Clarence Milton
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Cook, Earl
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Copp, James H.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: McIntosh, William Alex
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Murdock, Steven H.
    role:
      role term: degree supervisor.
  name:
    name part: Schaffer, Al
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Texas A & M University
    role:
      role term: degree granting institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Academic theses
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1983
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 204 leaves ; 29 cm
  abstract: The goals of this research were to demonstrate the applicability of human ecology theory for the study of energy-society relationships, to develop hypotheses from the human ecology theoretical framework about the nature of energy-society relationships, and to attempt to substantiate the hypotheses by empirical means. The first goal was accomplished by outlining a perspective on America's energy situation which defined the current period as a transition phase from a low cost, high availability energy environment to an environment characterized by higher energy cost and reduced energy availability. Then, a literature review discussing social science work already done in energy-society relationships, a discussion of the nature of human ecology theory, and a theoretical model of the American energy situation were presented. The second goal of this research was accomplished by developing hypotheses relating to a dependent variable of energy conserving behavior of ten independent variables. Five of these variables were either standard human ecology variables or variables frequently used in energy related studies. Two were proposed as intervening variables between structural characteristics of an aggregate and the dependent variable. Three were standard socio-demographic variables. The third goal of this research was accomplished by means of the creation and utilization of "Energy In the 80's" under the sponsorship of several groups. The data developed from the administration of the survey proved significant for eight of the ten proposed relationships. The three strongest associations were between energy conserving behavior and energy information, education, and income. The successful completion of this third goal was comprised by two problems. First, several of the substantiated hypotheses were low in their Kendall's Tau B levels of association. Second, of the independent variables which were classified as having strong levels of association with energy conserving behavio…
  note: "Major subject: Sociology."
  note: Typescript (photocopy).
  note: Vita.
  note: Ph. D. in Philosophy Texas A & M University 1983
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 157-166).
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-tx
  subject:
    topic: Energy conservation
    geographic: Texas
  subject:
    topic: Human ecology
    geographic: Texas
  subject:
    topic: Sociology
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  identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/DISSERTATIONS-542455
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  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 840824
    record change date: 20220103135120.0
    record identifier: in00000543480
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng