Browsing Colleges and Schools 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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(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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"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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(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 ...
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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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(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 ...