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Title: Fear and Loathing in the Heartland: Status Insufficiency, Resentment, and the Future of American Democracy
Author: Kitchens, Jordan
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Sociology, Social psychology
Description: The current technological and economic transformations spurred by globalization are having detrimental effects on White rural communities’ social status. The status-power theory of social relations predicts that status insufficiency results in neg...

Title: Food consumption, social media, and social status.
Author: Saleeva, Maria
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Sociology
Description: Food consumption practices among different social groups get attention from sociology scholars because of their symbolic meanings. At the same time, food consumption practices in contemporary society are affected by a new phenomenon – social media...

Title: From a Blue-Collar Background: Gender as a Moderator and Attitudes Towards Work and Family as a Mediator on Area of Study Choices
Author: Bourque, Leah
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Sociology, Educational sociology, Education
Description: Many sociologists attribute inequality to social reproduction, where children repeat their parents' life situations. The influence of a parent’s social background is evident when a child chooses a major or career. However, the literature fails to ...

Title: HOW ATTITUDES AFFECT GENDER AS A STATUS CHARACTERISTIC
Author: Randolph, Kyle
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Social psychology, Psychology, Experimental
Description: Status Characteristics theory (SCT) argues that individuals’ gender attitudes are inconsequential in the status process. SCT states that, since the status process is subconscious, conscious beliefs and attitudes are irrelevant. Because of this arg...

Title: High-Status Job Characteristics, Gender, and Overwork: The Buffering Effect of Free Time
Author: Speights, Sabrina
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Sociology
Description: The social ordering of time within a changing workplace is a serious concern for scholars, employers, and employees alike. This study contends that the use and evaluation of free time will reduce feelings of overwork brought on by the characterist...

Title: Housing Insecure Black Mothers’ Experiences Navigating Work During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Charlotte, NC
Author: Patel, Kripa
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Sociology, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, African Americans--Study and teaching
Description: The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact across the US, but further strained Black families’ financial security, especially Black mothers. Black individuals were already disproportionately represented as low-wage workers and housing insecure p...

Title: Identity Appeals During 2020 Republican and Democratic National Conventions
Author: Reichard, Gabrielle
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Sociology
Description: Once an essential part of selecting presidential nominees, national presidential conventions have dramatically changed in recent decades. In part due to the shifts in media and the rise of personalized politics, conventions now represent a form of...

Title: Immigrant Educational Achievement: The Roles of Bilingualism Expectations and Generation
Author: Al-Taher, Eman
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Sociology
Description: In this study, I focus on three varying perspectives to understand the assimilation process of immigrants and how it affects their academic achievement. I draw from Classical Assimilation Theory, Segmented Assimilation Theory and the Immigrant Par...

Title: Influencers, Identity, and the Internet: How Young Girls Create Their Identity Through Instagram
Author: Matranga, Aleksandra
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Sociology
Description: As technology continues to develop and social media platforms become more commonly used for various reasons, it is important to understand the overarching impact this has on our younger generations. This study looked at influencers, identity, and ...

Title: Initial Social Exchange with Potential Bad Faith Actors
Author: Franck, Patrick
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Sociology, Social sciences--Research
Description: Social exchange occurs in every facet of daily life, and exchange theory assumes that actors encounter ambiguity and uncertainty when interacting. Currently, a limitation in social exchange theory is the lack of research on deceit or opportunism, ...

Title: MEDIA TRUST IN CHINA: EXPOSURE TO INFORMATION, COGNITIVE CONSISTENCY, AND KNOWLEDGE GAP
Author: Cai, Tengteng
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Sociology
Description: This research examines media trust in China in the new Internet era. Cognitive consistency model and the model of knowledge gap and media trust are employed to explain the public trust in different sources of media. According to the cognitive cons...

Title: MENTAL HEALTH CASE MANAGERS: AN ANALYSIS OF COMPASSION FATIGUE AND WELLBEING
Author: Bilaye-Benibo, Tamunosaki
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Sociology, Health services administration, Medical personnel
Description: Compassion fatigue is a phenomenon wherein employees in "helping professions" develop decreased capacity for empathy due to repeated/extended exposure to client trauma and suffering. In addition to negatively impacting relationships with their cli...

Title: Men and Women Flight Attendants' Perceptions of Customer Interaction Quality
Author: Rafan, Chelsea
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Sociology
Description: A key component of jobs in the service industry is customer service, where the success of jobs are dependent on the success of the service and interaction. More specifically, flight attendants have been a part of the service industry for a signifi...

Title: Microaggressions in Team Based Learning Groups
Author: Winstead, Tremaine
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Sociology
Description: This study examines the effects of microaggressions on the performance and the perceptions of students in team based learning groups (TBL). Microaggressions, which are widely studied in psychology, communicate negative messages to members of margi...

Title: Mobility Along the Rail Line: How Charlotte’s Light Rail Project Impacts Economic Mobility
Author: Brown, Courtney
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Sociology
Description: This paper adds to the existing literature on gentrification by exploring the impact of newly developed light rail transportation systems on neighborhoods surrounding the rail stations. Transportation costs place a disproportionate burden on peopl...

Title: Navigating Uncharted Territory: A look at the college application process for low-income, minoritized female students
Author: Redfearn, Darian
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Sociology
Description: Objectives As the United States economy moves from a manufacturing to technology economy, the number of those jobs that require postsecondary education has increased. In an effort to ensure that the United States can compete in a global market it ...

Title: Navigating the Food Environment: Healthy Food Availability in SNAP-Authorized Drugstores in North Carolina
Author: Kennedy, Ashley
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Sociology, Public health, Nutrition
Description: The number of major drugstore chains (such as Walgreens, CVS, and Rite Aid) that accept Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits in North Carolina as dramatically increased. From 2000 to 2015, the number of stores accepting SNAP i...

Title: Not Just for Kicks: Discipline, Self-Control, and Martial Arts Culture in America
Author: Menear, Chad
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Sociology
Description: While martial arts are becoming more and more popular in American society, very little research is done on what relationship these practices have with violence. Previous research has shown a link with Eastern martial arts and reducing levels of ag...

Title: Past Experiences and Preferences for Queer Sex Education Among LGBTQ+ College Students
Author: Petrizzo, Kristen
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Queer studies, Educational sociology
Description: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and other (LGBTQ+) students face a higher risk than their cisgender, heterosexual peers of experiencing symptoms of poor sexual health, poor mental health, and sexual violence. Despite this, LGBTQ+ stude...

Title: Queering Entrepreneurship: An ethnographic study of a women-led tech startup in Berlin
Author: Wilson, Miguel
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Organizational sociology, Women's studies
Description: With the rise of more women-led firms in the tech industry, the question of how these organizations either differentiate or align themselves with their male-dominanted competitors is of growing interest. I examine whether a women-led tech startup ...