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This dissertation tests if fetal loss can be applied as an extension of prior literature on the weathering hypothesis. To do so, this study extends upon the weathering hypothesis: the observation that blacks experience substantially...
The U.S. cultural discourse in regard to race is strikingly different now, in the early years of the 21st century, than it was in the 20th century, and many organizations and institutions are seeking to change with the times and...
Occupational sex segregation, the gender wage gap, and ghettoization persist despite improvements in women's opportunities since World War II. Recent research calls for a focus on the social psychological factors in early life that...
Over the past several decades, research investigating the relationship between women's empowerment and demographic outcomes has grown. Despite the increase in empowerment research, findings on the relationship between empowerment and...
In 2002 I began working as a research assistant on the Florida Medicaid Assisted Living Project. The research project, which was funded in part by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and the Florida Agency for Health Care...
My dissertation broadly examines the impact of legal inequality on planned lesbian families, and particularly on co-parents. Data come from in-depth interviews with 27 women in planned lesbian families who conceived a child (themselves...
This study examines the apparent impact of 9/11 on the desirability of Arab and Muslim noncitizens seeking entry into the U.S. Following the September 11th attacks, immigration legislation expanded the definition of terrorism and...
Media are important agents of socialization. Accordingly, media images reflect as well as inform what characteristics symbolize feminine beauty. In the field of female beauty and fashion magazines in the U.S., visual portrayals of women...
Researchers employing the stress process model have long identified the importance of social and psychosocial resources in understanding how health disparities arise and are reproduced. However, most previous sociological investigations...
Using a cohort of poor and near poor families captured in the 1996 Survey of Income and Program Participation, this dissertation investigates the factors that explain different outcomes for these families that were being challenged to...
This dissertation reports the results of a study about representations of (Black) women, sexuality, and gender relations in rap music lyrics. I explore the extent to which rap music lyrics reproduce or challenge gendered, racialized, and...
Relying on panel data from the first-wave Disability Study, an adult community sample living in Miami-Dade County in 2004, this dissertation examines the influence of women's race, ethnicity, culture, and structure on their health care...
Nearly 75 percent of rapes reported to law enforcement in the U. S. in the recent past were committed by someone known to the victim (Bureau of Justice Statistics 2003). Rape scripts allocate extensive blame to women in known-perpetrator...
Examining Hometown Environments and University Experiences: A Qualitative Study of Gay Latino College Students' Identity Challenges at Two Predominantly White Institutions
Using grounded theory methodology to analyze in-depth interviews, participant-taken photographs, and written reflections, this dissertation examines the hometown environments and university experiences of twenty-five gay Latino...
As veterans of the Iraq War return to their families, researchers are showing renewed interest in understanding the life course effects of military service. Past research, however, does not provide clear insight into the life course...
The physical health dangers, as well as social and emotional consequences, of obesity are well established in the literature. Much is also known about the increasing rates of obesity for youth and adults in the United States. Yet, still...
One of the key determinants of health and wellbeing for adolescents is the utilization of preventive health services. While adolescents are generally healthy, public health officials warn that access to health insurance, preventive care, ...
After over forty years of study, sociologists continue to debate the educational system's role in reducing or reproducing intergenerational patterns of inequality. Theoretical perspectives frame schools as both equalizers that reduce...
As Pearlin (1989) has argued, risk and protective factors for mental health problems arise out of the structural contexts of people's lives and are fundamental to the study of mental health. Despite wide acceptance of this proposition by...
This dissertation examines the attitudes toward government responsibility and spending on public pensions and unemployment programs in six countries. Specifically, I re-test a welfare state regime theory to explain country-level...
Polyamorous relationships are a type of ethical non-monogamous relationship where individuals have multiple romantic, sexual, and/or emotional partners. Focusing on monogamous relationships, past studies have demonstrated that men...
Despite improvements over time and within most areas of the world, there remain large variations in birth outcomes worldwide. While prior research has examined the health and individual level social factors that influence birth outcomes...
From its triumphant emergence in the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk in August 1980, the trade union Solidarity emerged as a major social and political force in Poland, eventually contributing to the collapse of communism in that part of Europe...
This dissertation seeks to increase understanding about why older African Americans have equal or lower rates of mental illness than whites; despite the general tendency that disadvantaged individuals have worse mental health than...
In this dissertation, I examine the concept of cultural capital (Bourdieu 1973; Lamont and Lareau 1988; Lareau 2002) as it applies to teachers' evaluations of native and immigrant students' academic and social behaviors. Using data from...
In two empirical articles, this dissertation investigates how a college organization of black men used the concept of brotherhood to foster personal social mobility among members. Both chapters take advantage of two years of fieldwork...
This dissertation investigates how gender and sexuality shape people’s perceptions of aging in midlife. The study draws on two narratives about aging discussed by aging studies scholars. Decline—the predominant aging narrative—constructs...
Heterosexual transmission of HIV is contingent not only one's own but one's partner's behavioral risk levels. Public health advocates have long promoted "knowing" one's partner as a means for preventing the spread of STDs. Perceptions of...
A growing body of research suggests that religious involvement may be protective with respect to a wide variety of health outcomes. In this dissertation, I investigate the conditions under which this might apply to the likelihood of...
The period 1980-2000 was important for infant health in Florida and the United States more generally. This period of dramatic social change and substantial improvements in therapeutic technology has produced striking improvements in...
Older United States (U.S.) veterans are a population at risk for disability due to their early life experiences with military service and increasing age. Military service was a normative part of early adult life for today's older U.S....
Over the past few decades, U.S. communities have become increasingly unequal in terms of aggregate educational composition. Extant research shows that educational composition predicts community prosperity and community wellbeing...
In two empirical studies, this dissertation explores the how young mothers spend their time constructing motherhood. The first study (Chapter 2) explores self-reported teen mother time use and compares it to their non-mother counterparts...
Objectives and Theoretical Framework This study addresses the social dynamics of associations between chronic inflammation and quality of life in older adults, as well the ability of social factors to cause inflammatory disease. It...
Unprecedented shifts in age structure has important implications for the number of people ages 65 and older living with disabilities and requiring long-term care. Further, health care trends, including the early discharge of hospital...
Within movement scholarship, there is insufficient research that examines how social identities influence frame resonance and alignment. How macro frames are used by activists to narratively construct their micro mobilization narratives, ...
Although there is a wealth of research documenting the benefits of social participation for health, few studies have extended their consideration beyond the most proximate influences on the relationship. Integrating the life course...
Stalking became defined as a social problem in the U.S. in 1990, after several celebrities and extensive media attention revealed that the targets of stalking are not merely harassed, but are victimized similarly to other victims of...
Although several studies have examined race and gender differences in gun-related attitudes, little is known about how racialized and gendered attitudes might contribute to the gun policy preferences and gun ownership rates of Americans....
The gendered allocation of time to household labor has important consequences for marital well-being. However, much of what is known about gendered patterns in housework and their consequences is derived from cross-sectional studies....
What emotional messages are present in Global Justice Movement (GJM) framing? What framing strategies are employed within activist-generated GJM documentaries to construct sides surrounding issues? How do these films express emotions to...
Although leisure spaces provide a degree of liberation through their relaxation of norms, women are more likely to experience behavioral and emotional burdens that limit their freedoms in these spaces. Little is known, however, about how...
This dissertation contributes to the fields of medical sociology, environmental health, and public health by examining the effects of social stratification on environmental exposures and physical morbidity. Although previous conceptual...
Sexual and gender minorities (i.e., gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, trans people) (SGMs) have experienced both social and legal progressive change over the last 50 years. However, this group still reports worse health outcomes and...
An Assessment of the Relationship Between Health Behaviors, Physiological Dysregulation, and Mortality for Black, White, and Mexican Americans in the U.S.
In recent decades, the influence of negative health behaviors on physical health and mortality has garnered a great deal of attention (Institute of Medicine 2001). Research suggests that these negative health behaviors, such as smoking, ...
How organizations (re)produce inequality is of premiere importance to sociologists. Higher education is one institution with many types of organizations (i.e., colleges and universities) ripe for sociological examination of unequal...
In two articles, this dissertation explores how collegiate gamers reproduced gender hierarchies within gaming spaces. Both chapters employ interviews with collegiate gamers from a large southeastern university. The first article (chapter...
The role of stress and social support in women's health during pregnancy and the postpartum period has gained considerable attention over the past decade in understanding postpartum mood disorders, including postpartum depression....
The importance of older adults' health is increasing with extending lifespans. Despite a large amount of research conducted on older adults' health, little is known about sexual orientation differences. Although some studies have...
This dissertation investigates teachers’ views and uses of Hip Hop culture. Many sociologists have used cultural capital theory to explain educational disparities among social groups. Cultural capital theory posits that because schools...
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