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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 thesis is about musicians in the city of La Paz, Bolivia, and how they pursue professional careers through the performance of a diverse range of musics in a wide range of settings. The subjects of this research are mostly...
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...
In this dissertation, I investigate the role of the Atlanta Braves’ new baseball stadium and surrounding development within the emerging context of team-driven mixed-use urban development. Conceived as a replacement for the 20-year-old...
This paper was presented by Norma M. Brumbaugh, a State Home Demonstration Agent from Oklahoma at the National Meeting of State Home Demonstration Agents. It focuses on bettering the lives of families based on the needs, desires, 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...
Suggestions from the self-determination theory and extant literature suggest the fulfillment of basic psychological needs (i.e., autonomy, competence, and relatedness) is necessary for well-being and to prevent ill-being. Autonomy is the...
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...
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...
This paper was presented by Marlys Richert, Assistant Director of Home Economics at the University of Wisconsin at the National Workshop for State Leaders of Home Economics Extension in Lincoln, Nebraska. It focuses on the research...
This study examines perceptions of the "typical American" from 49 cultures around the world. Contrary to the ethnocentric bias hypothesis, we found strong agreement between in-group and out-group ratings on the American profile ...
Prior research suggests that neighborhood context has an important role in shaping individuals' perceptions of generalized trust, which is an important ingredient in establishing informal social control. Since most of the empirical...
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...
This paper examines racial differences in student loan debt and concurrently assesses the potential payoffs and countervailing risks inherent in reliance on loans in a cohort of black and white first-year college students. Using the 1996...
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 paper presents a case study of a sociologist who played the part of participant and observer once admitted to a small inpatient psychiatric unit, therapeutic community, for recurrent depressive episodes. Various observations on...
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...
Family leisure is conceptualized as engagement and satisfaction with experiences that involve joint participation in activities with other family members during one’s free time. Although family leisure has been linked to family...
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...
While the number of children born in cohabiting unions has greatly increased, studies have shown that cohabiting unions are significantly less stable than married unions and that the unions instability is negatively associated with the...
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....
Past research indicates that the quantity and quality of resources available for immigrants in a destination city have serious implications for an immigrant's overall success. Previous research though, has failed to look at resources for...
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, ...
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...
The general purpose of this research is to determine if there are case-level, individual, and/or social factors that have a differential impact on the federal criminal sentencing of Hispanic non-citizen offenders, compared to white...
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...
My research is on motivations to study English as a Second Language. Specifically, I wanted to see if English learning motivations were patterned by demographic variables and attitudes about English learners. Previous research suggests...
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...
Florida's Department of Corrections (DOC) currently operates the largest state-run faith-based correctional facilities program in the United States. In these facilities, the state sequesters inmates from the larger inmate population and...
ABSTRACT Worldwide variations in homicide have been subject to debate, specifically in why these variations may occur. This cross-national study makes use of data for 60 developed and developing nations from the World Values Survey data...
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...
National income has a pervasive influence on the perception of ingroup stereotypes, with high status and wealthy targets perceived as more competent. In two studies we investigated the degree to which economic wealth of raters related to...
This study investigates the concept of community in our modern world so that we may more fully recognize what community is, how the term is being appropriated by the digital world, how the use of the term in the digital is altering our...
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...
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