Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Department "Community Research & Action"
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(2023-06-30)Department: Community Research & ActionIn this paper, I seek to understand how staff members of Faith in Indiana (a Midwestern federation of the national faith-based community organizing network Faith in Action) perceive and talk about navigating their new roles ...
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(2023-06-30)Department: Community Research & ActionIn this paper, I seek to understand how staff members of Faith in Indiana (a Midwestern federation of the national faith-based community organizing network Faith in Action) perceive and talk about navigating their new roles ...
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(2023-11-27)Department: Community Research & ActionYoung people have long played an important role in challenging and dismantling racism and white supremacy. However, little is known about what explains how some adolescents come to hold antiracist attitudes and engage in ...
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(2020-11-16)Department: Community Research & ActionThe Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement seeks to disrupt dominant cultural patterns and norms both through the use of traditional movement tactics, such as protest, and through the strategic and intentional integration of ...
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(2020-07-24)Department: Community Research & ActionRacial discrimination has been consistently identified as a major stressor associated with poor developmental outcomes for African Americans. Despite a plethora of studies examining the effects and consequences of racial ...
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(2022-03-27)Department: Community Research & ActionAlthough community and environmental psychologists have examined stigma against mentally and intellectually disabled people for decades, we rarely extend this analysis to wheelchair users. In addition, we tend to overlook ...
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(2023-11-09)Department: Community Research & ActionThe way that women of color make sense of adverse experiences such as intimate partner violence (IPV) victimization affects the way that they respond to the situation. Cultural contexts provide a frame for making sense of ...
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(2023-07-25)Department: Community Research & ActionThis study examines the effects of a place-based action civics intervention, Design Your Neighborhood (DYN), on middle school students’ place attachment (PA) and sociopolitical control (SPC). DYN is a cross-curricular ...
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(2022-01-13)Department: Community Research & ActionIn 2016, the Jamaican General Election witnessed the lowest voter turnout rate since independence. A popular media narrative suggests that this is an example of Jamaicans’ hopelessness or political apathy. However, an ...
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(2023-06-14)Department: Community Research & ActionThe Family Stress Model posits that environmental stressors place a burden on families that indirectly impact family dynamics and parenting, thereby undermining children’s adjustment. Past studies have acknowledged the ...
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(2023-06-14)Department: Community Research & ActionThe Family Stress Model posits that environmental stressors place a burden on families that indirectly impact family dynamics and parenting, thereby undermining children’s adjustment. Past studies have acknowledged the ...
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(2020-03-18)Department: Community Research & ActionMyriad studies describe the link between media use and youth sexual attitudes, intentions, and behaviors, but little is known about its influence on sexual development across adolescence, and about how factors, such as ...
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(2022-03-23)Department: Community Research & ActionMany formerly incarcerated individuals are experiencing nominal freedom (Lateef, 2019). They occupy a “parallel universe” where discrimination, stigma, and exclusion run rampant (Alexander, 2010, p. 94). If we wish to build ...
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(2023-04-13)Department: Community Research & ActionAs society evolves and increases to recognize the fluidity of identity in terms of demographic classification, the domain of research will be faced with the crucial choice of how to capture an individual’s ever-changing ...
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(2022-11-10)Department: Community Research & ActionIn light of rapid urban developments, urban planners have become more concerned with enhancing the quality of life in cities. However, the connection between the built environment and perceived well-being is not adequately ...
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How Do Housing Interventions for Families Experiencing Homelessness Affect Children’s Functioning? (2021-08-16)Department: Community Research & ActionFamily homelessness remains a persistent social problem and is associated with worse child outcomes, though individual outcomes vary widely. Little is known about whether the main intervention approaches used to re-house ...
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(2023-03-23)Department: Community Research & ActionInclusive education examines the ways in which educational policies and practices construct and respond to difference. Policies and practices for inclusive education challenge the spatial segregation of difference, emphasizing ...
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(2023-03-28)Department: Community Research & ActionRefugee populations exhibit high rates of PTSD, anxiety, depression, and psychological distress, but are less likely to receive care than the general population. Perceptions among the Kurdish refugee community about causes ...
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(2022-10-21)Department: Community Research & ActionIn the sociology of institutions, most scholarship has focused on how institutions influence social action. Increasingly, there is interest in the reciprocal relationship, or at least in actors’ purposive efforts to influence ...
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(2021-08-13)Department: Community Research & ActionPrevious scholarship has examined how adolescents are socialized to address social issues, in addition to cognitive processes that promote different social change behaviors. However, little research has highlighted the ...