Browsing by Department "Sociology"
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(2020-07-14)Determining appropriate theory to analyze how the aging process impacts prison management has proven difficult. Since there is little extant theory that can posit factors and trends leading to an aging inmate population ...
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(2022-07-22)#BlackLivesMatter protests exemplify the militarization of policing and the antagonistic relationship between police departments and the communities they are meant to serve. This study bridges systemic racism literature, ...
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(2010-10-12)This study used in-depth interviews with members of Hip Hop culture nationwide currently entering adulthood; those between 21-30. Its purpose being to learn what they understand Hip Hop culture to be, what it means to them ...
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(2018-11-29)Longitudinal study investigating whether 7th, 8th, and 9th grade students’ interactions with school and criminal justice authority figures affects educational outcomes in adolescence, emerging, and middle adulthood and if ...
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(2022-08-08)This study sought to connect two literatures, status characteristic theory and altercasting, to an applied experiment examining the relationship between Realtors and their clients. A 2x2 experimental survey was conducted ...
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(2015-08-15)The authors compare alternative procedures for estimating parameters of event-history models: ordinary least squares, Kaplan-Meier least squares, maximum likelihood, and partial likelihood. They report results of simulations ...
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(2022-04-27)The voices and experiences of older Mexican-origin adults living in the burgeoning colonias along the Texas-Mexico border are missing from the literature. The objective of this qualitative study is to illuminate how older ...
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(2009-05-15)This dissertation uses data from the 2006 American Community Survey and Decennial Census 2000 to analyze trends and determinants of poverty among Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants in the Southwestern United States. ...
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(2012-10-19)This thesis investigates the continued hostilities and increasing backlash against the American Muslim community in the United States from a critical perspective that centralizes the racialization of Muslims and Muslim ...
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(2023-03-30)Racial and ethnic labels have historically been used for both political and social purposes, and they can be used to signal meaning, which may offer insights into social boundary construction. Using data from the Boundaries ...
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(2015-08-12)The author describes and analyzes different sorts of problems from aggregation bias, a type of composition errors, that can result when shifting from group-level data to individual-level effects. He develops three approaches, ...
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"Arming the Good Guys?": An Examination of Racial Framing in Students for Concealed Carry on Campus (2014-07-25)Over the last several decades, issues relating to gun rights have received growing attention from the academic community. Much of this research focuses on the importance of masculinity and violence and shaping modern gun ...
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(2015-12-15)This multi- sited ethnography of artists, artistic culture, and community aimed to understand the meaning-making activities of artistic producers (poets) and consumers (audiences) within three artistic communities across ...
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(2011-08-08)Why study Asian American sexual politics? There is a major lack of critical analysis of Asian Americans and their issues surrounding their place in the United States as racialized, gendered, and sexualized bodies. There ...
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(2009-06-02)This thesis investigates the residential segregation of the Asian population in Houston considering segregation among Asian groups as well as segregation of Asians from broader non-Asian groups, namely whites, blacks, and ...
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(2011-02-22)This study examined how teachers' perceptions and attitudes and students' perceptions impacted the learning outcomes students received from their participation in service-learning. Service-learning is a form of experiential ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)Compared to other professions, women's representation in engineering professions is considerably lower than men's, and this particular situated-ness or locality makes women experience a unique process of identity construction. ...
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(2015-08-15)This bibliography is a revised and expanded version of working paper 100.
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(2011-04-26)Since the introduction of colonialism, African women have frequently been ignored in and excluded from political life in southern Africa. However, many women participated as freedom fighters and activists in southern ...
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(2010-10-12)The idea that theories of race, racial segregation and racism have played a central role in the development of sociology and that black and white sociologies have formed because of this condition is not new and has been ...