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Occupational sex segregation, the gender wage gap, and ghettoization persist despite improvements in women's opportunities since World War II. Recent research calls for a focus on the social psychological factors in early life that...
This dissertation tests if fetal loss can be applied as an extension of prior literature on the weathering hypothesis. To do so, this study extends upon the weathering hypothesis: the observation that blacks experience substantially...
My dissertation broadly examines the impact of legal inequality on planned lesbian families, and particularly on co-parents. Data come from in-depth interviews with 27 women in planned lesbian families who conceived a child (themselves...
In 2002 I began working as a research assistant on the Florida Medicaid Assisted Living Project. The research project, which was funded in part by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and the Florida Agency for Health Care...
This study examines the apparent impact of 9/11 on the desirability of Arab and Muslim noncitizens seeking entry into the U.S. Following the September 11th attacks, immigration legislation expanded the definition of terrorism and...
Over the past several decades, research investigating the relationship between women's empowerment and demographic outcomes has grown. Despite the increase in empowerment research, findings on the relationship between empowerment and...
One of the key determinants of health and wellbeing for adolescents is the utilization of preventive health services. While adolescents are generally healthy, public health officials warn that access to health insurance, preventive care, ...
As Pearlin (1989) has argued, risk and protective factors for mental health problems arise out of the structural contexts of people's lives and are fundamental to the study of mental health. Despite wide acceptance of this proposition by...
Stalking became defined as a social problem in the U.S. in 1990, after several celebrities and extensive media attention revealed that the targets of stalking are not merely harassed, but are victimized similarly to other victims of...
Although there is a wealth of research documenting the benefits of social participation for health, few studies have extended their consideration beyond the most proximate influences on the relationship. Integrating the life course...
Older United States (U.S.) veterans are a population at risk for disability due to their early life experiences with military service and increasing age. Military service was a normative part of early adult life for today's older U.S....
After over forty years of study, sociologists continue to debate the educational system's role in reducing or reproducing intergenerational patterns of inequality. Theoretical perspectives frame schools as both equalizers that reduce...
In two empirical studies, this dissertation explores the how young mothers spend their time constructing motherhood. The first study (Chapter 2) explores self-reported teen mother time use and compares it to their non-mother counterparts...
Although researchers concerned with Hispanic American mental health have long recognized the roles of acculturation and ethnic discrimination in shaping health, many questions remain about the conditions under which these factors have...
Although several studies have examined race and gender differences in gun-related attitudes, little is known about how racialized and gendered attitudes might contribute to the gun policy preferences and gun ownership rates of Americans....
Are certain types of household beneficial or detrimental to psychological well-being? This dissertation re-examines the association between household composition psychological well-being. Special attention is given to differences in...
This dissertation explores how members of a lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) Christian church collaborated with a new pastor to transform their inclusive and egalitarian religious organization into one characterized by...
The link between socioeconomic status (SES) and health and mortality has been well-established, but evidence continues to suggest that this relationship begins in early life with parental SES. There is evidence that allostatic load (AL)...
This dissertation investigates teachers’ views and uses of Hip Hop culture. Many sociologists have used cultural capital theory to explain educational disparities among social groups. Cultural capital theory posits that because schools...
The role of stress and social support in women's health during pregnancy and the postpartum period has gained considerable attention over the past decade in understanding postpartum mood disorders, including postpartum depression....
The importance of older adults' health is increasing with extending lifespans. Despite a large amount of research conducted on older adults' health, little is known about sexual orientation differences. Although some studies have...
The gendered allocation of time to household labor has important consequences for marital well-being. However, much of what is known about gendered patterns in housework and their consequences is derived from cross-sectional studies....
Based on 17 interviews with college football players, this dissertation examines the construction of athletic and masculine identities among a group of young men who play "big-time" college football at a Division I-FBS university in the...
Within movement scholarship, there is insufficient research that examines how social identities influence frame resonance and alignment. How macro frames are used by activists to narratively construct their micro mobilization narratives, ...
Unprecedented shifts in age structure has important implications for the number of people ages 65 and older living with disabilities and requiring long-term care. Further, health care trends, including the early discharge of hospital...
Objectives and Theoretical Framework This study addresses the social dynamics of associations between chronic inflammation and quality of life in older adults, as well the ability of social factors to cause inflammatory disease. It...
What emotional messages are present in Global Justice Movement (GJM) framing? What framing strategies are employed within activist-generated GJM documentaries to construct sides surrounding issues? How do these films express emotions to...
Although studies suggest emotion plays an important role in constructing meaning, previous research has not identified the specific role of emotions in framing processes. In this dissertation I address this issue and identify how...
Spousal health concordance is observed within a community sample of 400 disabled and non-disabled adults and their spouses from Miami-Dade County to access the value of broadening the definition of spousal health concordance to include...
Farmers markets surged in popularity in the United States over the past two decades. The negative consequences of large-scale, industrialized agriculture and changing consumer interests together stimulated this drive towards alternative...
I examine data from a two year ethnographic study on the sport of mixed martial arts (abbreviated MMA) to contribute to the sociological understanding of gender. The structure of this dissertation is in the form of two stand-alone...
This dissertation research uses the analysis of internet-based comments on two major news stories to study the role of identity in anchoring power during discursive participation. For this purpose, identity includes the categorical group...
This research contributes to medical sociology, neighborhood research, and life course studies by synthesizing relevant concepts from each field in order to offer a more complete understanding of how and why place impacts health. This...
Examining the Effects of Family, Friends, and School Contexts on the Psychological Well-Being of Adolescents in Same-Race and Interracial Romantic Relationships
This dissertation examines the association between adolescent romantic relationships and psychological well-being. I argue that heterosexual adolescents with different relationship statuses (dating and non-dating) and in different...
This dissertation examines the work lives of 32 gays and lesbians in Florida. It compares the experiences of Lesbian and Gay (LG) workers who are protected by non-discrimination laws and policies to those who are unprotected. Through in...
Diabetes and depression are both highly prevalent within the U.S. and it is worrisome that these two conditions are related. Several meta-analyses and studies using qualitative, clinical, and nationally representative cross-sectional...
Being gay and being overweight are two stigmatized statuses in the United States. A range of work has considered the experience of being stigmatized and the consequences of stereotypes for overweight individuals and sexual minorities, ...
In a global interacting world, there is a natural tendency to look abroad, to see how other countries have responded to similar problems, and to share ideas and experience. This dissertation examines policy diffusion using a case study...
Despite cultural expectations about children providing parents happiness and a sense of purpose, the emotional toll of parenthood may be more substantial and the benefits may be less pronounced than one might assume. Previous research...
The concept of sustainability is theoretically comprised of three distinct dimensions: environmental, economic, and social. Most public and academic discourse, however, focuses on environmental and economic sustainability to the neglect...
Latinx immigrants view college attendance as a vehicle for upward mobility and a primary means for achieving the American Dream. Despite ongoing debates over the rightful place of immigrants in U.S. society and periods of anti-immigrant...
In two empirical studies, this dissertation explores processes of constructing the Florida Highwaymen, a group of "rediscovered" Black artists, who painted from the end of the Jim Crow era to the present. The first study (Chapter 2)...
Despite improved athletic opportunities for girls and women since passage of Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972, collegiate athletic budgets dedicated to women's sports are smaller than the percentage of women athletes, and...
Purpose: Distance education has become an increasingly common mode of instruction in U.S. higher education, and today more than a quarter of students are enrolled in distance courses or programs that are fully online. This dissertation...
Past research demonstrates a robust relationship between marital status and health, with married adults experiencing less disability and disease than unmarried adults (Goodwin, Hunt, Key, & Samet, 1987; Gordon & Rosenthal, 1995; Johnson, ...
Over the past two decades, there has been a growing trend in the juvenile justice system of administering risk assessment instruments to juveniles and using the results to classify offenders into risk categories and determine their...
While conventional wisdom suggests that that getting jobs is more about "who you know" than "what you know", the empirical evidence on job searching shows that people who rely on their personal contacts when searching for a job generally...
This study used social engagement theory to examine the relationship between attending worship services and the trajectories of physical decline among Mexican American elders. Data for this study came from eight waves of the Hispanic...
Military service is a life course pathway that defines the transition to adulthood for approximately three to five percent of young adult men and one percent of women. Though few young adults pursue this pathway, the military provides a...
In this dissertation, I explore retirement income using a sample of Black and White men and women over age 62 who draw Social Security. I examine three of the main sources of retirement income – Social Security, occupational pensions, ...
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