Browsing by Subject "inequality"
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)This dissertation tests the theory that lithic raw materials were a strategic resource among the ancient Maya of Blue Creek, Belize that markedly influenced the development of socio-economic hierarchies at the site. Recent ...
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(2016-08-03)Previous research using status characteristics theory illustrates how stereotyping is activated and maintained in small task-oriented group interactions. This occurs when group members reference their and other’s observable ...
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Since the 1980s, wage convergence between men and women has been slow and inconsistent across high-income nations. Moreover, long-established explanations such that of human capital factors more so explain the gender wage ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2022-12-21)By most measures, wealth inequality has risen significantly over the last three decades and is a growing concern. However, standard wealth definitions require that individuals possess a legal claim to assets included as ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)In this thesis I focus on segregation between households giving attention to the roles that family type, economic inequality, and race can play in promoting and maintaining these patterns. I first consider three lines of ...
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Recommender systems have become increasingly prevalent online within the last two decades and are used extensively on social media and networking platforms. We look at one such platform, LinkedIn, which serves the purpose ...
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(2022-08-29)Surface polishing is a multi-stage process. Different abrasive tools and process parameters are employed at different stages. Tool change and endpoint decisions currently rely on practitioners’ subjective inspections and ...
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(2016-12-06)This dissertation study tested the hypothesis that greater political fragmentation in a metropolitan area increases the degree of residential segregation between non-Hispanic whites and non-Hispanic blacks. The questions ...
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(2015-07-21)This Technical Report presents the theoretical account for relations among power and prestige behaviors in small groups and performance expectation states. It explains, among other things, the high correlations among several ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2023-05-02)In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a ‘war on poverty.’ Since then, the U.S. poverty rate declined from 19% to 11.6% in 2021, but one may wonder why it has not dropped further. In this issue of PERCspectives ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2021-02-15)In the U.S., wealth inequality has risen in recent years. However, past estimates of wealth inequality tend to ignore Social Security benefits – even though these accrued benefits are almost 40% of the size of conventional ...
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(2012-02-14)Sociology at its core has always been interested in understanding how society works. Previous studies on social stratification have sought to outline who gets what, when, and why. This project introduces the where element ...