Browsing by Department "Sociology"
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(2009-05-15)Prior research has focused on studying female fertility, but male fertility remains overlooked. Using data from the 2001 Demographic Yearbook, the 1964 to 2002 Taiwan-Fukien Demographic Yearbooks, the 2004 National Statistics ...
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(2012-07-16)The "implicit rules" of the white racial framing shape meanings, structure interactions, and impose identities upon all who enter American society. The context of this current study conceptualizes how this racialized frame ...
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(2017-06-01)In this dissertation, I examine Latina/o undergraduate students’ experiences with systemic racism and racial identity in relation to their academic persistence at three predominantly white universities. By employing ...
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A Call to Disrupt Institutional Racism: Racial and Ethnic Inequality in the Criminal Justice System (ACJS Today, 2017-01)The article discusses the topic of ethnic and racial inequality, offering information on the criminal justice system on the subject of discrimination-disparity and institutionalized racism in the U.S.
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(2018-07-27)The purpose of this autoethnography is to explore a young Latina’s educational pathways through a deep-rooted rewriting of the self as an illustration of experience to the greater literature. It contributes to the sociology ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2007-09-17)Social research specifically aimed at evaluating the efficacy of coastal zone management programs at the parish (county) level in building local capacities has been meager in academic literatures and absent from Louisiana ...
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(2015-08-12)The authors describe and analyze some issues in understanding causality from panel designs. They focus on complications that arise when multivariate panel models are measured with either random or systematic errors. The ...
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(Humanities and Social Sciences Review, 2017-01)According to Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey (2012-13), Pakistan is the sixth most populous country in the world with existing level of unmet demand for family planning services being as high as 20%; however, the ...
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(2017-08-16)a. This TP is an attempt to identify brain mechanisms associated with the finding that mere exposure to words, patterns, and other stimuli often leads to liking, even when the exposure is too brief to produce conscious ...
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(2011-08-08)This research examines the effect of a nutrition education intervention to change attitudes and other factors associated with eating breakfast and consuming low-fat dairy and whole-grains. Adolescents (n = 106) 11 to 15 ...
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(2020-11-24)Populations are rapidly aging in many developed nations including Japan. Providing care for the elderly is one of the major social problems facing Japanese society. Exacerbating the demographic problem of the aging population, ...
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(2013-10-07)Racialization, oppression, and resistance are key components of the United States’ race relations. Consequently, social movements organized and led by youth of color represent the manifestation of resistance to social and ...
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(2013-07-12)This dissertation seeks to build on the growing research literature concerning the intergenerational consequences of paternal imprisonment for their children. The existing literature has explored the cumulative process of ...
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(2012-02-14)In this thesis, I examine how colonial constructs on Chinese culture affects people's views toward sexual minorities in Hong Kong. In the first Chapter, I explain the shift of my research focus after I started my research. ...
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(2018-05-29)While demographers have focused on sexuality issues mainly in Western nations and some in Asia, research that explores sexuality issues in the Middle East remains extremely limited. My dissertation explores public attitudes ...
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(2011-08-08)John Bongaarts' proximate determinants model of fertility has accounted for over 90 percent of variation in the total fertility rate (TFR) of primarily developing nations and historical populations. Recently, dramatically ...
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(2014-09-03)This dissertation examined the impact capital punishment has on the prison employees who worked with executions in the State of Texas. Qualitative methodology with an emphasis on critical ethnography was used to collect ...
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(2022-09-19)Using the Education Longitudinal Study (ELS), American Community Survey (ACS), and Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS), I interrogate how young adults’ rates of homeownership and coresidence vary by demographic ...
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(2009-05-15)How are pets being used as status symbols to display social position and wealth? This paper seeks to theoretically examine pet owners and their use of animals to convey a message of social status, position and wealth. This ...
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(2017-08-16)The author develops a bounded rationality model of effects of communication structures and applies it to 223 R & D teams. One main result was that structural properties of a team’s network were strongly associated with ...