Browsing by Subject "Identity"
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(2017-05-08)In this dissertation, I present an ethnographic exploration of how a post-migration community—the Persian community in Israel—constructs its identity. Drawing on cultural and postcolonial theories, I discuss the ways in ...
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(2013-07-22)This dissertation presents three separate studies exploring parents’ perceptions and recommendations for communicating with their third, fourth, and fifth grade children about human sexuality. First, a systematic literature ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-08-16)According to Erik Erikson (1950), adolescents and young adults are highly engaged in the process of identity development with intentions to avoid a state of diffusion and role confusion. Several researchers (e.g., Bordin, ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2008-10-10)Erving Goffman's dramaturgical perspective sees the world as a stage and social actors as the players (1959). Social actors partake in a series of dramatic performances to accomplish a certain stable social self. This idea ...
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(2014-09-02)This qualitative study explores the complexities of racial and ethnic identification Mexicans in romantic relationships with whites in four locations: Brazos County, San Antonio, Austin, and Houston. Using data from 90 ...
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(2019-05-15)How do relationships between leaders influence world politics? I argue that shared identity between leaders makes cooperation more likely by increasing interpersonal trust. Leaders who share more similar social identities ...
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(2018-11-21)Children in early childhood and elementary classrooms are often marginalized due to a variety of identity markers, which create borders within learning spaces and limit access to social and academic success. Students who ...
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(2017-05-03)This thesis uses former literature on orality, literacy, pluralism, and power structures and applies their theoretical framework in order to provide insight into the rhetorical impacts of social media. Specifically, Facebook ...
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(2023-07-18)This research explores race and gender-based inequality in an academic setting. Specifically I focus on both Asian-American men and women students enrolled in an engineering program. While much of the current research ...
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(2010-01-16)This dissertation aims to examine the various ways in which three Victorian novels, such as Wilkie Collins?s The Woman in White (1860), Anne Bront�?s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Charlotte Bront�?s Villette (1853), ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2007-09-17)Lovesickness is a common malady in British literature, but it is also an illness that has been perceived and diagnosed differently in different eras. The nineteenthcentury British novel incorporates a lovesickness that ...
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"Temporarily Machiavellian" examines the performance of self in reality television. This study demonstrates how contestants on "Survivor" manipulate and reinvent their identities in performance. Combining the disciplines ...
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Since their individual conceptions, the LGBTQ+ community and religion have been at odds. I believe that this feud is rooted in the cognitive dissonance of the individuals involved in both of these communities. Both of these ...
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The current state of research with regards to the use of exhumed paupers’ graves in the 19th century is well established, but the extent to which attempts to preserve the documentation of personal and cultural identities ...
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(2017-08-08)Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a devastating mental illness, occurring at a rate of 1-5% within the general community and 15-20% of those already seeking treatment (i.e., clinical samples). A complex disorder, ...
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(2014-07-08)The purpose of this dissertation is to provide an initial examination into Mormon missionaries from an anthropological, and ethnographic, perspective. Through the use of autoethnography, I provide an emic understanding ...