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A Public Policy Approach to Status Interventions and Unintended Consequences.
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Author
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Jamil, Cayce
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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Social sciences--Research, Social structure, Government policy
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Description
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This dissertation examines whether there are unintended consequences that emerge from status interventions in task groups in relation to cohesion and solidarity. Past theorists have argued that inconsistent status structures produce weaker levels ...
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Do Refugees Who Become Economically Self-Sufficient Start With Nothing?
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Author
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Scholes, Paul
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Sociology, Social sciences--Research, Social structure
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Description
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There are more refugees globally now than at any time since WWII. I use Phillimore’s opportunity structures from the refugee studies literature with popular ideas from the sociology of immigration literature like New Assimilation Theory to examine...
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The Community College: Access to Opportunity or Barrier to Success
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Author
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Grubbs, Samuel
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Social structure, Government policy, Education, Higher
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Description
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The purpose of this dissertation was to investigate some of the contradictory outcomes for community college students. I investigated whether community colleges lower their students’ aspirations and make students less likely to be socially involve...
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The Intersectional Effects of Race, Gender, and Class on Worker Outcomes
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Author
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Frevert, Tonya
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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Organizational behavior, Social structure, Women's studies
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Description
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In this dissertation, I investigate how the combined structural locations of workers’ race, gender, and class affect their individual outcomes in their personal domain (health perceptions), their work domain (job satisfaction), and the interface b...
