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- 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
- EXPLORING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN VARSITY SPORTS PARTICIPATION AND COLLEGE STEM DECLARATION
- Author
- Averette, Morgan
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Recreation
- Description
- MORGAN AVERETTE. Exploring the Relationship between Varsity Sports Participation and College STEM Declaration.(Under the direction of DR. MARTHA CECILIA BOTTIA)This study investigates the association between high school interscholastic sports part...
- Title
- The Relationship Between Disability Status and Academic Outcomes: Race and SES As Moderators
- Author
- Ayala, Emily
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Sociology
- Description
- ABSTRACTEMILY AYALA. The Relationship Between Disability Status and Academic Outcomes: Race and SES As Moderators. (Under the direction of DR. MARTHA CECILIA BOTTIA)Addressing the educational achievement of children with learning disabilities is a...
- Title
- The Relationship Between Disability Status and Academic Outcomes: Race and SES As Moderators
- Author
- Ayala, Emily
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Sociology
- Description
- ABSTRACTEMILY AYALA. The Relationship Between Disability Status and Academic Outcomes: Race and SES As Moderators. (Under the direction of DR. MARTHA CECILIA BOTTIA)Addressing the educational achievement of children with learning disabilities is a...
- Title
- A CLOSER LOOK INTO WHY AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN LEAVE AND AVOID STEM MAJORS IN COLLEGE
- Author
- Bailey, Jr., Ricardo
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Sociology, Educational sociology, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
- Description
- African American males are underrepresented in university Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) programs as STEM majors in the United States. I will be investigating why this phenomenon is so prevalent in America’s collegiate STEM program...
- Title
- Explaining Fertility Intentions Among Non-Assimilated Hispanic Immigrant Women Living in the U.S.: A Rational Choice Reinforced by Social Identity?
- Author
- Barros de Redard, Maria
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Women's studies, Social sciences, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, Hispanic Americans--Study and teaching
- Description
- Research on the assimilation of Hispanic immigrants in the United States isabundant; however, fewer studies have examined the effect of assimilation on Hispanicimmigrant women and childbirth. Prior research has documented that the fertility rateam...
- Title
- Affect Control Theory and Gendered Occupations
- Author
- Barry, Leanne
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Sociology, Social psychology
- Description
- Gender is widely considered to be a major contributing factor in workplace inequality. This is largely due to the gendering of occupations by labelling certain jobs as more appropriate for one gender than the other. In this paper, I examine gender...
- Title
- THE IMPACT OF INDIVIDUAL GENDER BELIEFS ON JOB SELECTION AND SEX SEGREGATION OF OCCUPATIONS
- Author
- Benson, James
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Sociology, Sex role, Industrial relations
- Description
- Moving beyond occupational aspirations to actual selection of occupations, the current research considers the impact of individual gender beliefs on selection of occupations for men who work in male-dominated occupations compared to men who work i...
- 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
- The Role of Formal and Informal Social Support on Depression for Individuals Living with HIV Disease
- Author
- Bloomer-Clouse, Amanda
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Sociology, Mental health, Medical sciences
- Description
- The current literature on depression within HIV populations shows poorer outcomes for these individuals than those in the general population. To further these studies, I performed an analysis looking at the effects of formal and informal social su...
- 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
- AIN'T I A YOGI?: A CRITICAL EXPLORATION OF SYMBOLIC AND SOCIAL BOUNDARIES IN THE YOGA WORLD
- Author
- Brooks, Temeka
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Sociology, Women's studies, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
- Description
- Recent sociological research considers the relationship between social and symbolic boundaries in a variety of social contexts. In this study, I build on such research by exploring how such boundaries are reproduced and potentially bridged in oste...
- 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
- TESTING THE STRICT DEPENDENCE ARGUMENT
- Author
- Burrill, Daniel
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Sociology, Social psychology
- Description
- Abstract Task cues are indications of how an individual in a task group thinks they will perform at the group’s task (Berger et al. 1986). Prior research (Conner 1977; Ridgeway et al. 1985) has shown that status characteristics influence the produ...
- 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
- ANALYZING THE EFFECT OF DEBT ON HORIZONTAL EDUCATION-OCCUPATION MISMATCH
- Author
- Carpenter, Rebekah
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Sociology
- Description
- This study investigates the relationship between educational loan debt and horizontal education-occupation mismatch, or the extent to which an individual works in an occupation unrelated to their degree field. Research has documented rising levels...
- Title
- TRANS COLLECTIVE EXPERIENCE: HOW TRANSGENDER INDIVIDUALS SEARCH FOR PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIANS
- Author
- Drake, Amanda
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Sociology, Sex role, Queer studies
- Description
- The transgender population experience high rates of discrimination in healthcare settings, which has been well documented. Less is known about what is keeping transgender individuals from utilizing healthcare resources or their entry points to hea...
- Title
- UNDERSTANDING THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIALIZATION SOURCES DURING THE ADAPTATION TO THE COLLEGE EXPERIENCE
- Author
- Dubose, Cornell
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Sociology, Social psychology, Social sciences--Research
- Description
- CORNELL DUBOSE. Understanding the Influence of Socialization Sources During the Adaptation to the College Experience. (Under the direction of Dr. Elizabeth Stearns)Every year in the United States, thousands of young adults start their college care...
- Title
- Doctoral Students' Stress and Coping Amid the Coronavirus Pandemic
- Author
- Elton, Kira
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Sociology
- Description
- The coronavirus pandemic had a profound change to daily life. While the pandemic could be considered a stressful event within its own right, graduate school is also known to induce stress; this stress occurs due to time constraints, financial stra...
- 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, ...