Browsing University Undergraduate Research Fellows (1968–2012) by Department "Sociology"
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(1983)Murray Straus is the leading researcher in the area of family violence. He conducted a study in 1976 of 2,143 American families. Following the study, Straus and his co-workers wrote the book �Behind Closed Doors� in which ...
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(1998)A large gender difference exists in the percentage of male and female students enrolled in architecture schools. Roughly one-third of architecture students are females while about half of the student population at large ...
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(1986)Congress established the National Sea Grant College Program in 1966 to hasten the development, use and conservation of America's marine resources. The inspiration for Sea Grant was the land-grant colleges established by ...
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(2010-07-14)The twentieth century has been called the bloodiest century in human history. In two world wars and various other conflicts spanning across decades, man was more combative than ever before. Yet despite this century of ...
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(1991)This is a study that investigates the minority student retention problem at Texas A&M. In this study, both qualitative and quantitative data are taken into account. In the quantitative portion, six variables are related ...
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(1986)The purpose of this study will be to examine the change in the level of religious commitment of members of the Campus Crusade for Christ after graduation from college, and to assess whether or not they are meeting their ...
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(1996)How are males and females portrayed in full-length animated features? This research analyzes gender portrayal in five Disney films released in the 1990s: The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Snow White and ...
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(2011-04-27)The prevalence and causes of intimate partner violence have been discussed for years,and conclusions vary greatly often because the findings are contradictory. Through the use of online survey methods, this research studied ...
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(1987)A survey of twenty-two low income Bryan residents was conducted to determine the expectations and aspirations of this sample in regards to job opportunities, housing, and educational attainment. The culture of poverty ...
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(2012-05-02)This paper uses Maddison data on GDP in major oil-producing countries to analyze whether correlations exist between metric tonnage of oil produced and the economic development of the country. For my purposes I use GDP per ...
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(1984)The project will analyze data on water leaders in Texas communities involved with developing and constructing U.S. Army Corps of Engineers water projects. Socioeconomic characteristics, extent of power both within and ...
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(1995)The purpose of this paper is to explore how universities react to outside pressures that threaten their basic interests. Two issues are central to this paper. First is identifying the basic interests of universities and ...