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Title: “It Make Me Feel Like I’m Beneath Them”: Experiences of Stigma Among Individuals Living with Food Insecurity
Author: Uri, Rachel
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Sociology, Environmental health
Description: Food insecurity represents one of the most prevalent and severe problems facing modern United States (U.S.) society, with the proportion of households affected surging to approximately 23% during the COVID-19 pandemic. While several food safety ne...

Title: “16 Weeks is a Lot of Time to be Away”: A Contemporary Examination of Maternity Leave Perceptions and Experiences
Author: Chandler , Allison
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Communication, Sociology, Management
Description: In recent decades, women’s presence in the workplace has increased from only a quarter of total American workers, to nearly half of all American workers (U.S. Department of Labor, 2020). With an increasing number of women in the labor force, organ...

Title: The Effects of Religious Identity and Race on Political Participation and Voter Registration
Author: Venezia, Ashleigh
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Sociology
Description: The relationship between religion and political participation and voter registration has not been investigated through the lens of Identity Theory. In this thesis, I utilize measures of religious affiliation and race to examine their influence on ...

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: 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: 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: Creative Energy: Exploring Jail Arts Programs and Cultural Capital
Author: Miller, Lindsey
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Sociology
Description: This study explores the beliefs, goals, and motivations of arts-based prison initiatives based on acase study of a jail arts program provided by an art museum in Charlotte, North Carolina. This case study includes in-depth interviews with individu...

Title: Conceptual Refinement and a Multi-Level Framework of Ethical Culture
Author: Ross, Roxanne
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Psychobiology, Sociology
Description: Interest in understanding ethical culture in organizations has grown over the last few decades. However, ethical culture appears to suffer from a lack of conceptual clarity, leading to downstream problems that threaten the internal and external va...