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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...
This thesis is about musicians in the city of La Paz, Bolivia, and how they pursue professional careers through the performance of a diverse range of musics in a wide range of settings. The subjects of this research are mostly...
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...
This study is about the formation of elite lay Buddhist societies in late 16th-century and early 17th century Hangzhou. In this era, many classically trained Confucian scholars were not only philosophically inclined to Buddhist doctrines...
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...
During the twentieth century, American literature witnessed a transformation in representations of apocalypticism and nature. The apocalypse changed from a theological, divine force to a secular, manmade crisis and nature was no longer...
Romantic love and intimacy are critical for emerging adults to explore self-identity. Relationship efficacy is a cognitive process related to conflict management that plays an important role in romantic relationship development 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...
Stress is a prevalent and concerning reality for families, and when stressors are long lasting or severe, they can lead to a crisis. The ABC-X Model of Family Stress proposes that experienced stressors lead to family outcomes of...
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...
Sport management researchers have not studied sport markets, despite their importance to the discipline. In this dissertation, I report on two ethnographic case studies where I worked with new sport organizations to design and conduct...
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...
The Punished Woman Collects Her Body is a collection of poems that center the queer femme's experience, featuring a speaker who quests to reassemble her body after trauma and to discover the self through her senses and intellect with...
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...
The African immigrant population in the U.S. has roughly doubled every year since 1970 (U.S. Census Bureau, 2014). The increase in African immigrant families in the U.S. coincides with a rise of African immigrant families interacting...
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...
Informal labels and formal labels were hypothesized to impact short-term and long-term delinquency, even when controlling for the effect of other types of labels in the same model. Reflected appraisals were separated by the source of the...
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...
My primary research aims to examine whether there are differences between soldiers in the United States Army and the civilian population (non-military) in how they define and cope with stress. In particular, my first research question is...
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...
We examined the influence of age, gender, Black vs. White ethnicity, and education on five indices of personality stability and change across an average interval of 8 years in the East Baltimore Epidemiologic Catchment Area study. In the...
In this dissertation, I am chiefly interested in the educational experiences of black collegiate athletes. Throughout the project I build upon previous research investigating the macro-, meso-, and micro-level challenges of United States...
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...
Although the 1954 case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka prohibited de jure racial segregation in American public schools, de facto segregation persists in many schools around the country. There is research to suggest that one of...
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...
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...
Establishing stable, high quality romantic relationships is an important developmental task during emerging adulthood with prognostic significance for future relationship development such as marriage (Fincham & Cui, 2011). Studies...
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...
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...
Suggestions from the self-determination theory and extant literature suggest the fulfillment of basic psychological needs (i.e., autonomy, competence, and relatedness) is necessary for well-being and to prevent ill-being. Autonomy is the...
While the number of children born in cohabiting unions has greatly increased, studies have shown that cohabiting unions are significantly less stable than married unions and that the unions instability is negatively associated with the...
This study examines perceptions of the "typical American" from 49 cultures around the world. Contrary to the ethnocentric bias hypothesis, we found strong agreement between in-group and out-group ratings on the American profile ...
Prior research suggests that neighborhood context has an important role in shaping individuals' perceptions of generalized trust, which is an important ingredient in establishing informal social control. Since most of the empirical...
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...
This paper was presented by Marlys Richert, Assistant Director of Home Economics at the University of Wisconsin at the National Workshop for State Leaders of Home Economics Extension in Lincoln, Nebraska. It focuses on the research...
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...
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