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A CLOSER LOOK INTO WHY AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN LEAVE AND AVOID STEM MAJORS IN COLLEGE
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Author
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Bailey, Jr., Ricardo
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Sociology, Educational sociology, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
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Description
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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...
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A market for vice: The foundations of corporate strategic irresponsibility
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Author
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Stewart, Oscar
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Management, Sociology, Ethics
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Description
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Organizational scholarship has assumed that corporate irresponsibility (CI) is largely detrimental to firm financial performance. Alternatively, CI may sometimes work in firms’ favor, though at the expense of stakeholders. Exploring this reality, ...
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AIN'T I A YOGI?: A CRITICAL EXPLORATION OF SYMBOLIC AND SOCIAL BOUNDARIES IN THE YOGA WORLD
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Author
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Brooks, Temeka
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Sociology, Women's studies, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
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Description
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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...
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ANALYZING THE EFFECT OF DEBT ON HORIZONTAL EDUCATION-OCCUPATION MISMATCH
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Author
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Carpenter, Rebekah
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Sociology
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Description
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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...
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ANALYZING THE GLOBAL DIFFUSION OF THE #METOO MOVEMENT USING TWITTER DATA
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Author
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Mitra, Sharoni
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Sociology
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Description
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The #metoo movement started in the United States but has spread across the world with the goal of increasing awareness about the sexual harassment women endure. This paper aims to understand the factors affecting the diffusion of the #metoo moveme...
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Affect Control Theory and Gendered Occupations
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Author
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Barry, Leanne
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Sociology, Social psychology
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Description
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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...
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Conceptual Refinement and a Multi-Level Framework of Ethical Culture
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Author
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Ross, Roxanne
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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Organizational behavior, Psychobiology, Sociology
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Description
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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...
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Cool Down or Warm Up? Understanding Motivations behind Student Athlete Major Choices
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Author
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Parris, Dionne
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Sociology, Educational sociology
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Description
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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...
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Creative Energy: Exploring Jail Arts Programs and Cultural Capital
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Author
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Miller, Lindsey
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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Sociology
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Description
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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...
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Creative Energy: Exploring Jail Arts Programs and Cultural Capital
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Author
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Miller, Lindsey
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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Sociology
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Description
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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...
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Cultural Distinction in Campus Dining
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Author
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Jillani, Zara
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Sociology
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Description
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This study examines patterns of cultural consumption at four universities as indicated by the dining options offered on their campuses. I explore the diversity of university dining options, the considerations that guide dining personnel’s decision...
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DISCOVERING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN MATERIAL CONSUMPTION AND SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING
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Author
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Venkitasubramanian, Kailas
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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Sociology, Geography, Government policy
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Description
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This dissertation theoretically and empirically investigates how material consumption affects human happiness and life satisfaction in the urbanized societies around the world. In recent literature, happiness and life satisfaction is encapsulated ...
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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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Doctoral Students' Stress and Coping Amid the Coronavirus Pandemic
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Author
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Elton, Kira
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Sociology
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Description
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The coronavirus pandemic had a profound change to daily life. While the pandemic could be considered a stressful event within its own right, graduate school is also known to induce stress; this stress occurs due to time constraints, financial stra...
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Double Standards and Selection
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Author
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Clemons Doerer, Sharon
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Management, Sociology, Social psychology
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Description
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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...
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EXPANDING THE BOUNDS OF AUTHORITY BY APPROPRIATING GROUP MEMBERS’ TIME
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Author
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Rejtig, Michael
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Sociology
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Description
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Actors in a position of authority can acquire legitimacy beyond the normative order when the appropriation of subordinate’s time is found valid by group members. A randomized laboratory experiment consisting a peer condition and authority conditio...
