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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: 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: UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL MOVEMENTS THROUGH SIMULATIONS OF ANGER CONTAGION IN SOCIAL MEDIA
Author: Bacaksizlar, Nazmiye
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Sociology, Information technology, System theory
Description: This dissertation investigates emotional contagion in social movements within social media platforms, such as Twitter. The main research question is: How does a protest behavior spread in social networks? The following sub-questions are: (a) What ...

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: 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: Resilience and Venture Performance: The Moderating Role of Culture within Entrepreneurship
Author: Barzuna Hidalgo, Oscar
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Entrepreneurship, Sociology
Description: Resilience research within the field of entrepreneurship has increasingly received attention from academia. However, most studies have considered this construct under extreme circumstances such as war, the aftermath of natural disasters, and econo...

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: Examining Early Perceptions of Leaders and Entitativity in a Shared Leading Situation with a Focus on Gender
Author: Caudill, Leann
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Psychobiology, Sociology, Management
Description: As organizations become increasingly team-based and less hierarchical, the leader (and follower) role could stretch within groups and be shared by all group members. When faced with gender-diverse groups, members or observers of the group may have...

Title: Why nations succeed? Distribution and reach of the state power
Author: Cekic, Nejra
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Sociology, Political science, Economics
Description: What explains the difference in the performance of the world’s nations? Why do some succeed, and others fail? I argue that the primary determinants of development are two dimensions of a country’s institutional setting. The purpose of this study i...

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: Double Standards and Selection
Author: Clemons Doerer, Sharon
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Management, Sociology, Social psychology
Description: In this dissertation, I use an extension of status characteristics theory--the theory of double standards--to investigate whether and to what extent race activates the use of differential standards in the evaluation of objectively measured task-re...