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A distinctive welfare sub-culture?
(1970)The existence and persistence of lower-class communities in an era of prosperity poses a problem of explanation for sociology. Focusing on various distinctions, different traditions have emerged for pinpointing the underlying ... -
A Statistical Framework for Measuring the Temporal Stability of Human Mobility Patterns
Despite the growing popularity of human mobility studies that collect GPS location data, the problem of determining the minimum required length of GPS monitoring has not been addressed in the current statistical literature. ... -
Admission Categories and Differences in Annual Earnings and Job Quality of New Permanent Resident Immigrants
This study uses longitudinal data from The New Immigrant Survey to examine the role of immigration admission categories in stratifying new immigrants in the U.S. labor market. More specifically, I explore differences in ... -
Adolescent Concealment: Causes and Consequences
What motivates individuals to lie and withhold information from others? There are multiple definitions of dishonest and secretive behavior—ranging from impulsive delinquency to strategic self-preservation, each stemming ... -
After the Wedding Night: The Confluence of Masculinity and Purity in Married Life
(2012-09-13)Purity is congruent with cultural understandings of femininity, but incongruent with normative definitions of masculinity. Using longitudinal qualitative data, this study analyzes interviews with men who have taken pledges ... -
Age-Specific Fertility Dynamics: Sub-Saharan African Fertility in a Global Context
Persistent high fertility in sub-Saharan Africa has been of concern to demographers and global health experts for decades. Sub-Saharan African fertility levels and trends are singled out as markedly higher and different ... -
Aging-as-Leveler for Mental Health?: Stressful Life Transitions and CES-D Trajectories in Late-Life
Due to declining mortality rates and other demographic transformations, individuals aged 65 and above make up a larger share of the population within the United States than ever before, yet vast inequality remains in the ... -
Agricultural commercialization and state development in Central America: the political economy of the coffee industry from 1838 to 1940
(1988)This dissertation is a comparative study of the historical development of the state in the three leading coffee producing countries of Central America: Guatemala, El Salvador and Costa Rica. It focuses explicitly upon the ... -
Alcohol Use and Misuse among American Indians: Applying a Modified Historical Trauma Model
(2014-02-24)Although Native Americans are commonly associated with alcohol misuse, little is known about stressors or coping mechanisms that may influence alcohol use patterns. Using Wave 2 of the National Epidemiologic Survey of ... -
All Mixed Up: Social Interaction and Social Ties in a Mixed-Income Public Housing Community
(2013-02-25)What is the nature of residents' social interactions and social ties in a mixed-income public housing community and what are the processes producing these outcomes? This study examines the nature of social interaction and ... -
Alternative schools and the public school system: a study on conflict and accommodation
(1973)In modern societies, public education plays a very important role in providing for the intellectual development and socialization of new generations. Recently in this country the public school system has come under attack ... -
Are Media ‘Watchdogs’ of Illegal State Practices in Post-Cold War Liberal Democracies?: A Case-Study of the Coke Extradition
Since the end of the Cold War, post-colonial states have progressively enacted a series of liberal-democratic reforms aimed at addressing forms of state illegality. Despite being good disciples of reform, political ... -
Bad Refugees: Manufacturing Statelessness at the Margins of Global Northern Citizenship
Written in conversation with critical refugee scholars who have theorized about the politics of cultural memory as it concerns formal state and community-based negotiations over how to remember the Vietnam War, this ... -
Becoming an Expert Cannabis Connoisseur: Toward a Theory of Moralizing Labor
Economic sociologists have shown that legitimacy is an important part of market success (Fourcade and Healy 2007; Meyer and Rowan 1977) and that workers play a central role in establishing a contested trade as legitimate ... -
Being without Belonging: Seattle's Ahıska Turks and the Limitations of Transnationalism for Stateless Diaspora Groups
(2013-04-17)Within transnational and diaspora populations, there are subsets of groups that are stateless and have been displaced multiple times and have complex origins and migration histories. Existing frameworks of transnationalism ... -
Benefits of the Balancing Act: Motherhood, Employment and Mental Health
Variant findings on the benefits and strains of combining employment and family roles encourage investigation into the mechanisms and conditions under which employment improves the well-being of individuals who perform the ... -
Beyond Migration: Examining the Impact of Migration Experience, Gender, and Ethno-Caste Identity on Mental Health
What are the effects of migration on the mental health of migrants in Nepal? How does ethno-caste identity and gender moderate the association between migration and mental health? Taking an intersectional approach, this ... -
Black-White Wealth Accumulation: Does Veteran Status Matter?
(2014-02-24)University of Washington Abstract Black-White Wealth Accumulation: Does Veteran Status Matter? Judy Ann Loveless-Morris Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Professor Barbara F. Reskin Sociology Previous research has ... -
Blacks in the coronary artery surgery study
(1986)This thesis examines the experience of blacks in the Coronary Artery Surgery Study (CASS) with respect to (1) risk factors, symptoms, and coronary artery disease, (2) clinical decision making for coronary artery bypass ... -
Brokers Beyond Borders: Moldova's Countertraffickers
(2013-07-25)Why do development organizations behave the way they do? What factors determine the key constraints and incentive structures within which they pursue their goals? In this paper, I make the case that development organizations ...