Browsing by Subject "gender"
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(2018-04-25)The second Ku Klux Klan made its first public appearance in Texas at a United Confederate Veterans parade in October 1920, then quickly expanded across the state. Founder William J. Simmons created this organization as an ...
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(2016-05-04)In this dissertation, we use student-level high school and college entrance exam data from a city in China to explore the effects of peers, relative ranking and teacher quality on student test outcomes and track choices. ...
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(1990)The extent to which gender and self-monitoring correlated with the ability to detect deceit in interpersonal interactions was examined. 20 men and women were videotaped while describing someone they liked and someone they ...
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(2009-06-02)The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of popular culture, especially prime-time television, on women learner-viewers’ identity development. More specifically, this study explores one specific television ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2001)Based on a study by Bushman and Baumeister (1998), we hypothesized that high global self-esteem and high collective self-esteem should be predictive of greater aggressive. We also hypothesized that participants with high ...
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(2022-07-25)In this thesis, I examine the experiences of nonbinary and cisgender people in expressing their gender identity at work. Gender expression (GE) is important to study given that gender is embedded in nearly every aspect of ...
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The Art of Cookery: A Culinary Search for Cultural and National Identity in Great Britain, 1750-1850 (2014-04-23)This thesis discusses how published cookbooks reflect the complicated attitudes toward identity in Great Britain between 1750 and 1850. Focusing on cookbooks produced as commercial products, we are able to see how gender, ...
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(1978)Four theoretical explanations for the existence of negative attitudes toward the old, (1) poor life satisfaction as measured by loss in socioeconomic status, poor health and financial insecurity, (2) nearness to death of ...
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(1995)Attitudes towards homosexuality among 243 undergraduates at Texas A&M University were examined in this study. Measures were taken of tolerance for homosexuality, level of principled moral development, and a variety of ...
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(2017-05-08)Local governments are thought to be more conducive to women’s representation because they are closer to home, easier to access, and require less time and resources than positions in higher levels of government. However, ...
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(2013-04-29)Childhood obesity is a growing problem in the United States. Though a great body of research has focused on this area, little is still known about the factors that influence this phenomenon in rural settings. Sedentary ...
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(2017-06-12)Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is associated with progressive cognitive declines that classically affect memory in the mild stages of the disease and gradually impair all other cognitive functions. Although certain changes in ...
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(2016-08-05)This dissertation focuses on the Meskhetian Turks, a small non-titular group who has experienced multiple displacements, violent persecution, and ongoing exile since 1944. Initially, the Meskhetian Turks were one of several ...
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(2012-02-14)Many scholars believe in order to have democratic legitimacy, females should be represented in governing bodies at all levels. Significant literature on female descriptive representation in the U.S. for women’s policy ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)Television is something that is a part of the everyday lives of a majority of people in America. The content of what is on television can vary in nature from being positive to being negative. However, what people are exposed ...
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(2020-07-30)Racism and sexism have and continue to permeate college sport. While scholars have explored the impact this has on African American male student-athletes, and female student-athletes in general, fewer have directed their ...
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(2011-08-08)Research is needed on desistance from crime using samples of males and females. Through the use of three waves of the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health (Add Health) data which represents a diverse and ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)Emotions are recognized as central to organizational life. The dialogue on the role of emotion in organizational life is furthered here by addressing the role that gendered display rules and associated expectations play ...
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In many strains of contemporary feminist theory, the sex/gender distinction is an elementary conception. Across its decades of paradigmatic prevalence within the discipline, the distinction consistently contextualizes the ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2021-04-12)In economics, as in many other academic disciplines, it is common for departments to invite external speakers to give research talks in academic seminars. These invited seminars are a primary way that academic economists ...