Sociology

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 Clas[...]

This thesis explores the relationship between out of school suspensions and court-involvement for youth in Mecklenburg County. Critical Race Theory (CRT) and the concept[...]

While much research has been dedicated to exploring how Black people as a collective respond to racism, or how White women as collective respond to sexism, little empiric[...]

Despite an apparent sea change in public attitudes regarding sexual orientation, contemporary qualitative research demonstrates stereotypes persist towards gay men, in tu[...]

ABSTRACTThis study examines how religious identity and boundaries are constructed at three separate levels: the institutional, the local, and the individual. Using the ca[...]

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; Ri[...]

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 mo[...]

Research on the assimilation of Hispanic immigrants in the United States isabundant; however, fewer studies have examined the effect of assimilation on Hispanicimmigrant [...]

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 [...]

Recently, the surging inflow of immigrants at the southern border of the United States has gathered political attention, questioning the long-term viability of receiving [...]