klasyki: Self-fulfilling prophecy

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A self-fulfilling prophecy is a prediction that comes true at least in part as a result of a person's belief or expectation that the prediction would come true. In the phenomena, people tend to act the way they have been expected to in order to make the expectations come true. Self-fulfilling prophecies are an example of the more general phenomenon of positive feedback loops. A self-fulfilling prophecy can have either negative or positive outcomes. Merely applying a label to someone or something can affect the perception of the person/thing and create a self-fulfilling prophecy. Interpersonal communication plays a significant role in establishing these phenomena as well as impacting the lab…

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Thomas, Dorothy Swaine (1899–1977). Dorothy Swaine Thomas, sociologist and demographer, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the daughter of John Knight and Sarah (Swaine) Thomas. A graduate of Barnard (BA 1922) and the London School of Economics (PhD 1924), she held academic positions at several leading universities and research institutions. In nine books and more than 70 articles, she studied the business cycle, population, and migration in Sweden and the United States, and the forced evacuation and internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Appointed to the University of Pennsylvania in 1948, she became the first woman professor at the Wharton School and, four years later, the fi…

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Thomas, Dorothy Swaine (1899-1977), sociologist and educator

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“Participating and Observing”: Dorothy Swaine Thomas, W. I. Thomas, and JERS. This chapter explores the lengthy, honest, and mutually respectful nature of the correspondence between Kikuchi and Dorothy Swaine Thomas, especially during the period of 1942 to 1945, when Kikuchi officially kept his personal diary for the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study (JERS), which Thomas led. Thomas had initially asked Kikuchi to keep a diary in the hope that she would gain greater insight into the “normal” workings of camp life and the readjustment processes of an individual resettler after camp. The chapter considers the significance of understanding how African Americans intersected wit…