Browsing by Department "Sociology"
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(2012-04-19)Department: SociologySOCIOLOGY “A HEADSCARF AMONG THE TURBANS”: HOW POLICY ENTREPRENEURS OPTIMIZE FOCUSING EVENTS SANDRA C. ARCH Thesis under the direction of Holly J. McCammon In their Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP Report), the ...
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(2022-11-16)Department: SociologyScholars have recently examined the cost of activism for activists, paying particular attention to burnout experiences in social justice spaces, yet we still know very little about the role of White supremacy to burnout ...
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(2021-05-12)Department: SociologyOver the past few decades, multiple actors, including clinicians, researchers, activists, intersex adults, and parents of intersex children, have engaged in debates over what intersex is and how—or whether—it should be ...
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(2013-12-10)Department: SociologyThe United States Department of Health and Human Services describes oral disease and tooth decay as a silent epidemic plaguing the poor. Poor oral health is negatively associated with several other physical health measures ...
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(2013-12-04)Department: SociologyThe period that spanned the Gilded Age to the onset of the Great Depression saw the rise and relative decline of the U.S labor movement. The salient events of labor movements over these years undoubtedly shaped public ...
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(2020-08-20)Department: SociologyThis mixed-methods dissertation uses historical archival materials, segregation indices, and regressions of change in proportions of residents employed in occupational groups on changes in racial-ethnic group proportions ...
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(2020-07-24)Department: SociologyThis dissertation challenges dominant understandings of social memory as a unified product generated through conflict between competing ideologies. Rather, multiple representations of a given past can comingle in a seemingly ...
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(2021-07-23)Department: SociologyUsing data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 – Young Adult Sample (N=464), this study examines the relationship between college attainment and self-esteem among Black adults. Further, I examine whether ...
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(2012-12-06)Department: SociologyIn this dissertation, I examine the social world of deep brain stimulation and its use in the treatment of people with movement disorders, including Parkinson's Disease, Essential Tremor, and Dystonia. Through ethnography, ...
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(2013-04-16)Department: SociologyResearch on social movement consequences has overwhelmingly focused on social movement-induced political or policy change. In this paper, I draw on data from interviews with LGBT activists at a Christian university to ...
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(2004-12-17)Department: SociologyIn this dissertation, I argue that cancer support groups may be usefully reconceptualized as subcultures with three distinct characteristics: ideology, norms and coping assistance. Ideology offers participants an alternative ...
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(2018-07-27)Department: SociologyHow do individuals enact careers within our increasingly precarious economic system? Examining workers in artistic careers can bring insight into this question, given their history of precarity and non-traditional employment. ...
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(2004-08-04)Department: SociologySOCIOLOGY CHINESE AMERICAN FEMALE IDENTITY JANELLE LEE WOO Dissertation under the direction of Professor Peggy A. Thoits This study examines the racial-ethnic identity formation of Chinese American women and assesses ...
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(2020-07-24)Department: SociologyAlthough numerous studies have found positive associations between listening to rap music and substance use behaviors, the question as to whether and to what extent music that contains substance use references is associated ...
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(2018-03-20)Department: SociologyLatinos and Asians are the two largest and fastest-growing panethnic groups in the United States. Scholars have traced the origins of these panethnic categories, used panethnic identification to predict social and political ...
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(2023-03-26)Department: SociologyA well-established body of research across academic disciplines has systematically documented the diverse ways sexual orientation is linked to a wide range of life outcomes from early childhood to the tomb. Yet, less ...
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(2009-12-14)Department: SociologyFollowing reforms in the Soviet Union in the mid-1980s, a large environmental movement erupted across the nation. At the time, it was the largest and most powerful critical group in the repressive regime. After the ...
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(2016-08-01)Department: SociologyCity development around the needs of a particular group or class is not a new phenomenon. The ramification of urban planning to suit the perceived needs of any one group is progress at the expense of others. The transition ...
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(2010-03-04)Department: SociologyThis dissertation examines the relationship between structural-level frames and individual behaviors using the case of breastfeeding in the United States and Canada. More specifically, it examines macro-level breastfeeding ...
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(2014-12-05)Department: SociologyThis research examines the cross-border utilization of Mexican health care services by Hispanic border residents. Using data from a community survey conducted in Webb County, Texas along the U.S.-Mexico border, this study ...