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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: 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: 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: Planning for coastal resilience: the intersection of theory and practice
Author: Griffith, Adam
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Sociology, Geography, Geomorphology
Description: In the face of accelerating sea-level rise, people continue to live near anddevelop the coast. In the United States, we have chosen adaptation andprotection, via coastal defenses, over retreat from the coast despite theunsustainable nature of effo...

Title: Social Media Framing of the Dakota Access Pipeline
Author: Tierney, Carla
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Communication, Sociology
Description: Objectives The purpose of this research is to identify and understand the social media framing of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). The DAPL is in North Dakota, crossing .55 miles north of the Standing Rock Sioux reservation. Primary criticisms r...

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...