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Title: A Woman in a Man's World: The Political Attitudes of Women and the Role of Representation
Author: Wemlinger, Elizabeth
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Political science, Sex role
Description: Gender plays an important role in shaping attitudes, constraining roles, and perpetuating values. Historically women have been removed from the public and political environment, not allowed to vote, to freely work, and to attend educational instit...

Title: Cool Down or Warm Up? Understanding Motivations behind Student Athlete Major Choices
Author: Parris, Dionne
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Sociology, Educational sociology
Description: The purpose of this study was to investigate how student athletes’ choice in major is influenced by coaches, advisors, peers, and instructors and how these influences contribute to the likelihood of being cooled out. Personal narratives for 10 stu...

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: Exploring HIV Transmission Risk Behaviors Through Perspectives of African American MSM and Trans Women: Mixed Methods Approach
Author: Gibbs, Maricus
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Social sciences, Medical sciences, Sex
Description: African American men who have sex with men (MSM) and Trans Women have been considered the highest sexual risk group with new cases of HIV for over a decade. The purpose of this paper is to explore and understand the motivators for higher HIV trans...

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: 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: STRATEGIES, INCENTIVES, AND DECISIONS: ILLICIT CROP CONTROL IN COLOMBIA
Author: Davalos Alvarez, Eleonora
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Economics
Description: This dissertation examines three aspects of coca cultivation in Colombia. Fist, I evaluate how social investment in conjunction with eradication affects new coca crops. The results suggest that aerial spraying is effective in deterring farmers fro...

Title: Sexual Orientation, Occupations, and Earnings Among Men
Author: Smith, Joseph
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Sociology
Description: Despite an apparent sea change in public attitudes regarding sexual orientation, contemporary qualitative research demonstrates stereotypes persist towards gay men, in turn affecting their labor market outcomes and earnings. This research tests th...

Title: Standardized Distraction: Why the Emphasis on High-Stakes Testing Can't Resolve Educational Inequality
Author: Giersch, Jason
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Education and state, Educational sociology
Description: Standardized testing has exploded into nearly every grade level and subject area in public education over the past two decades. Attaching high stakes to standardized test results was intended to improve education for all students, but especially f...

Title: THE RETENTION OF FIRST-GENERATION COLLEGE STUDENTS IN STEM: AN EXTENSION OF TINTO’S LONGITUDINAL MODEL
Author: Uche, Ada
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Education and state, Educational sociology
Description: In the current technologically advanced global economy, the role of human capital and education cannot be over-emphasized. Since almost all great inventions in the world have a scientific or technological foundation, having a skilled workforce is ...

Title: The Middle Segment of the Society and Socioeconomic Polarization: A Multidimensional Approach Applied to Colombia
Author: QUINONES, MAURICIO
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Economics, Area studies
Description: The purpose of this dissertation is to demonstrate the relevance for Colombia of analyzing the middle segment of the society – as the core concept – and socioeconomic polarization due to its linkage with the middle segment of the society, with a m...

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...