Browsing by Subject "Identity"
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(2015-08-19)With this research project, I endeavored to better understand the relationship that exists between identification, context, and control within communities of practice in which members identify with particular salience. ...
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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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(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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(2018-07-05)The purpose of this project was to identify factors that promoted or prohibited participation in Afro-Ecuadorian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the city of Guayaquil, Ecuador. This project also focuses on the ...
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(2012-12-10)In the present study, I look at the relationship between power and identity verification and the conditions under which this relationship can be disrupted. Specifically, I look at the role of information in disrupting power ...
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(2013-07-22)This dissertation examines the racial identities of middleclass Mexican Americans, and provides a focus on how racial oppression plays a significant role in the formation, negotiation, and organization of these identities. ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)In this dissertation, I explicate how scholars implicate themselves in the subfield of organizational communication studies by engaging in antinomic language-games which make the conduct of research (and textwork in ...
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(2022-05-25)The main purpose of this dissertation was to create a framework to analyze pedagogic literature for children as a cultural discourse. Furthermore, I proposed the examination of discourse as a socio-cultural critique of ...
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In this paper, I analyze how drag queen Trixie Mattel utilizes fantasy themes to push the limits of drag performance based on overlapping performative principles of art, comedy, gender, and popular culture. I explore the ...
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(2011-10-21)Emotional labor and its influence on authenticity and identity amongst human service workers has been the focus of numerous studies. Often these studies viewed identity as a stable sense of self. This study set out to ...
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(2019-04-08)This dissertation furthers our understanding of the influence of identity on behavior using experimental methods. My first project investigates the influence of social norms on behavior by testing for the presence of a ...
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(2022-03-08)This dissertation contains three separate studies exploring professional identity formation and identity salience among sexuality educators. First, a scoping literature review is presented (n = 8 studies), summarizing how ...
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(2015-05-07)Immigration has played a significant role in the structure of American society. Different immigrant groups have different trajectories in the United States: some groups have assimilated quickly into the existing structure ...
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(2015-05-12)Following the Texas Revolution, the Tejano community made a conscious decision to begin the long process towards accommodation within the American system. This included political alliances between the Tejano landholding ...
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(2015-04-24)In the current literature, there are seemingly incompatible predictions about the benefits and costs of internationalization for family firms. On the one hand, the behavioral agency model suggests that to preserve ...
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(2011-08-08)In this study I investigate how healthcare workers, involved in the Texas Medicaid program as healthcare providers, cope with four workplace constraints. Healthcare workers are constrained by: 1) the policies and practices ...
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(2011-10-21)My project examines the legacy of the Gettysburg Address from 1863 to 1965. After an introduction and a chapter setting the stage, each succeeding chapter surveys the meaning of the Gettysburg Address at key moments: the ...
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(2009-05-15)This thesis explores reactions to the Quebec Act of 1774 in pamphlets and newspapers within Britain and the American colonies. The Quebec Act was signed by George III in June of 1774, the bill instituted French Civil Law, ...
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(2018-08-21)The topic of straight-identified men who engage in sexual behavior with other men (straight MSM) is becoming the subject of an increasing amount of literature within gender and sexuality studies. This study approaches this ...
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On a Flood of Words: Race and Ethnicity in the Language of Disaster in Early Twentieth-Century Texas (2015-07-27)My thesis will show that newspaper reports on weather-related natural disasters in Texas and the Southwest borderlands between 1899 and 1921 reflect the change in racial and ethnic identities during the rise of the Jim ...