Browsing by Subject "theory"
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(2022-04-19)Research in this dissertation is a recontextualization of social and cultural theories into the rich world of symbols and their meanings within sports as a totemic phenomenon. The purposes of this dissertation are to ...
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(2011-08-08)Increased environmental regulatory policy has been put in place by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in response to waterborne oil pollution events. We examine the IMO regulatory response to these incidences. ...
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(2014-08-13)Previous research on children’s active commuting to school (ACS) focused mainly on physical and social environmental predictors of the behavior, leaving psychological factors under studied. The purpose of this dissertation ...
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(2009-05-15)“Empowerment” is a term used liberally throughout feminist theory. However, the term has a number of assumed meanings, depending upon the context of its use. In this dissertation, I examine primarily second-wave feminist ...
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(2018-07-27)The goal of this study stems from one primary question: how are black women’s futures currently being imagined in works of cultural production? In this dissertation, I make the case that speculative and science fiction is ...
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(2012-07-16)Childhood overweight and obesity is a significant public health concern, especially among children of different racial and socioeconomic backgrounds. This dissertation provides insight into one such population: Asian youth ...
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(2013-12-11)The influence of philosophy on architectural theory contributes to the formulation of architectural theory in the history of architecture. This relationship created the oscillation of architectural theory between rationalism ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-11-15)This dissertation seeks to evaluate and reformulate the sociology of religion through an integration of the work of Carl G. Jung and others. The purpose of such a reformulation is to develop a "new" theoretical framework ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)Diverse sociology theoretical constructs serve as the lens to examine the evolution of two popular symbols of US culture in the last 20 years: yellow ribbons displayed as decoration and awareness ribbons worn as personal ...
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(2009-05-15)This qualitative, phenomenological study examined the leadership experiences of 10 African American women (AAW)--current or former leaders in predominantly white organizations--to gain an understanding of how well, or not, ...
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(2009-05-15)Adolescent sex research, historically, has suffered from 4 limitations: a lack of theoretical grounding to guide the development of hypotheses (in individual studies); the absence of a multidimensional theoretical model ...
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(2009-05-15)The focus of this dissertation is to provide a cultural and organizational analysis of the development of medicine as viewed through the theoretical tenets of Thorstein Veblen, one of our most brilliant social and economic ...